34. Video Games and Computer Holding Power, Turkle, 1984

• 1980's - video games became a major fixture in popular culture 
• Turkle's The Second Self looked at how video games were an effective way of examining how different groups of people interacted with a computer
• Author thought about computing and its effects from a psychological standpoint:  how computers allow people to create personalities that are different from their real-life personalities 
• Games play both a social and psychological role and how we interact with games, and computers in general, influence the way we see and think about the world around us