Online Life: Between Inverse Instrumentality and Functional Organs

We shall all agree that Internet dramatically changed the world where we live: it cut distances and caused a revolution in the way we communicate, work deal with our daily life. By doing so Internet shaped our mindset, thus who we are, as Sherry Turkle points out in her TED talk [1]. It became therefore a major challenge of scholars gaining an understanding of how people behave when accessing the Internet and how they are affected by its usage. We propose here a new framework to study psychological aspects related to the Internet. Before doing so the current approaches will be discussed.