Loyal_8_I
This is an interesting way of telling a story because it addresses the reader directly. The author of the article did a good job of explaining what his experience felt like, but I'm more interested in how the creator(s) of the site planned the story with all of the possible reactions for the participant. It seems Caroline was created as a list of coinciding narrative segments that a participant could react to. This could be why the story ends as it does, with poor fictitious Caroline being terminated by the nefarious lab that studied her. She was never real, but in reality and in the story they made her real.
posted by Loyal V @ 8:47 PM
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I think the interaction between e-mails and the input to the web pages mades the feeling that Caroline seems so real. The process of receving the e-mails constantly is just like what happens in the real world. The e-mails cause the feeling of conversation, even though sometime the readers' input didn't really influence the story. In a sense, the storytelling process arouses the psychologic reaction of the readers.
I think Caroline is comparable to a mosaic. Each little facet is arranged in a specific pattern so that the gestalt looks like a person (or whatever the artist intends).
I don't know that they are simple because the different media require some degree of coordination to pull of something this believable. Some sophistication, intellect and tact is definitely involved on the part of the designer.
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