While it is true that the Internet in particular and advanced information technologies in general have transformed this imagination of the social, it is not that things have become virtual but rather that the form of virtuality is now such that space and time can be expanded and contracted, sped up or slowed down, such that these new social spaces have new kinds of flexibility(Poster 2001). The research at the Math Forum will provide a context for the discussion of how one pursues the ethnographic “other” in a world mediated by advanced information technology (Hine 2000; Hakken, 2003). On the one had, that ethnographic quest is made more difficult by the absence of physical bodies. On the other hand, the experience of the ethnographer, is the same as the informant, living in a world where there are more opportunities for interaction and more resources, but without some of the face to face interaction. The paper will argue that such hybrid spaces create new opportunities for individuals to imagine themselves and others. And further that in order to do ethnography in such a social space and understand these new possibilities, there needs to be a theoretical imagination of self and other.