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Deep Internet History with Default Friend

Outsider Theory

CHAPTER

Is the Internet a Second Self?

Ye am: I'm constantly surprised by how few people have read this book or heard of it. It's worth reading just the first paragraph of the book, where she states, we come to see ourselves differently as we catch sight of our images in the mirror of the machine. A decade ago, when i first called the computer a second self, these identity trans forming relationships were always one on one, a person alone with a machine. This is no longer the case. Ye am: The internet links millions of people in new spaces that are changing the way we think and feel.

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