User:Natasa Siencnik/notes/turkle/

Abstract

Author?: Personal Computers with Personal Meanings. Publisher, Year.

1. Introduction
   • children use the computer in their process of world and identity construction
   • development of fundamental conceptual categories, ways of looking at the world
   • children set apart from the generation that grew up without the technology
   • adults are more settled and might be afraid of the new, protected by familiar
   • computer can be a provocation to reflect this taken-for-granted status
   • stimulation to reconsider ideas and rethink the way to look at the world
   • relationship with a computer can influence people's conceptions of themselves
   • can be the basis for new aesthetic values, rituals, philosophy and cultural forms
2. Birth of a Personal Computer Culture, 1975
   • impersonal system concidered as a threat (billing errors, lost airplane reservations)
   • small computer kit available for $420 leeds to increase in personal computers at home
   • first generation used for teaching French, helping with financial planning and taxes etc.
   • not so important what the computer can do, but how it made people feel
   • being a member of a technical culture instead of being afraid of mathematics etc.
   • lowers barrier between mathematical professionals and users interested in technic
3. Distinction between Tools and Machines (Marx)
   • new feeling of empowerment, crossing frontier that separates tinkering from technology
   • tools are extensions of their users
   • machines impose thier own rhythm, rules, on the opeople who work with them
   • working with rhythms that we do not experience as our own (the system)