Analysis Of No Need To Call Sherry Sherkle

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Sherry Turkle, a teacher at MIt wrote an article called “No Need to call”. In this article she explores the changes in electronic messaging and how it affects our communication with each other. Sherry Turkle communicates to the reader that technology such as texting, emails, social media, ect.. have become a new way for people to converse and create for themselves a second identity. Sherry turkle gives an example of a girl named Audrey, who is shy, and how she uses social media to act and become someone she could not otherwise be in a face to face conversation. Through technology we are able to revise and change what we want people to see about us. If an error occurs online, we are able to delete, and try again as if nothing had ever happened.

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