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A network original evangelists said that our experience of the web is changing our identity both on and offline

"The need for self-knowledge has always been central to philosophical inquiry," writes MIT professor Sherry Turkle in the seminal book on the web and I

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on the screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet . Published in 1995 as the second of a trilogy that examines our relationship with technology, was seen in the way that we are in online spaces. And what does this mean for us online.

The good news is that the results are positive: "The game has always been an important aspect of our individual efforts to construct an identity," he said, referring to the development psychologist Erik Erikson, and nodding his head to the psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Lacan and Jung. "In terms of our view of self," he writes, "the new images of multiplicity, heterogeneity, flexibility and fragmentation to dominate current thinking about human identity. "

In this postmodern world, anyone can be anything you want, including a Syrian blogger lesbians. Tom MacMaster, who was discovered to the dismay of all that the author behind fiction, based in Damascus "Amina Arraf Abdullah al-Omari," said he was using the platform to express themselves and play with self-presentation. It is the latter case, high profile that shows the description of the web Turkle as a laboratory of identity.

At the time

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was released, the Freaks and Geeks internet to fill the tubes were a specialized group, the Most were students and their teachers in a very small talent pool, and a surprisingly small geography. They are technologically savvy, and generically an open mind on new areas of exploration that was inside of virtual networks is now a platform for communication. They were, in other words, the types of liberal, enlightened, who were more willing to accept the unprecedented flow of speech that this new technology offers unique technophobes, who thought everyone was online or in a monster or a geek.

As a psychoanalyst and a user of the site itself, Turkle spent most of the book explains the articulation of more non-pathological personalities. Unlike its Latin roots, identity does not mean "the same" he argued. "No aspect may be claimed that the self absolute, true," he wrote, saying that the site has given us the opportunity to meet our "internal diversity". In the great tradition of psychoanalysis, said self means to deal with what we are, and integrate all aspects of it in a coherent and well integrated with us.

most have an idealized "I", made specifically for our audiences, compartmentalized and implicit. Often this means putting our best foot forward in each of the media we use: smooth and profile photo pout, attitudes voices and opinions that we believe make a call to the people of interest to us that we like and then Tweet us and we believe that the information is interesting and does not make us look away. Especially, for the most part, we think first.

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