Scotto Moore’s Intangible Method, a video presentation of a 6 minute Twilight Zone-ish fairy tale he told at last year’s Etech conference.  The text-only version of the story is here but you really have to watch the video to get the full effect. image It’s  a mysterious and provocative tale about Internet privacy and fame which raises question of self-identity.   Did the main character have an identity apart from the socially constructed identity thrust upon her?

He writes:

indeed, the comments tended to praise her for bravery in exposing so much of her inner life with her community – although she did not recognize the user names of the people posting comments. the most recent post was titled, "i believe i am disintegrating."

Moore doesn’t only capture the fleeting nature of Internet fame here.  It calls into question the nature of Net communities. If she doesn’t even recognize the user names of this community of admirers, is it really a community at all? Does the flesh-and-blood individual really have any connection to it?  What kind of loyalty can people have to avatars (or other social constructs like Paris Hilton, George W. Bush or Britney Spears)?

Moore’s website contains lots of free creative commons content. Here’s some  free PDF books and scripts. On the video page, there is Cherub, an online video drama which is described as an  homage to /satire of the Buffy the Vampire Series.

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