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Cyberspace and Identity In an age where the Internet and computers are becoming commonplace, few people are asking how such interactions with machines and how relationships with others using these machines is changing the way we form and maintain our identities. Sherry Turkle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and author, is one of the few who is studying this change. Computers and the Internet are redefining human identity, as people explore the boundaries of their personalities, adopt multiple selves, and form online relationships that can be more intense than real ones. What we perceive to be our identity is unique, unified, and whole. However, this view has been challenged recently. It has long been known that personalities can fragment, but more recently the idea of “fragmented s