Question: E4J1: A counterfit Life?
HUM325: A Secrets: A Cyberculture mystery Game
- The film Catfish, as you have seen, unfolds like a Dateline Mystery. Only gradually does the protagonist learn his love interest does not exist. Nonetheless, Nev has exchanged around 1,500 messages with Megan, an identity manufactured by Angela. This online relationship had real world consequences. Angela resumed her "real life identity" a changed woman and resumed her painting aspirations as a direct result of her tangled online manipulations.
- After the movie premiered critics claimed the entire documentary was a hoax reminiscent of the famous The Blair Witch Project. Yet, if a hoax then the documentary would be a piece of fiction not nonfiction, but isn't it possible fiction often reveals deeper truths than so called true life stories? Use this film to write a 250 word entry on your impressions of the film and its impact on interpersonal identity. How do you know the ‘true' identity of another person self-represented on the internet?