about networked publics
From September 2005 to June 2006 a team of thirteen scholars at the The University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication explored how new and maturing networking technologies are transforming the way in which we interact with content, media sources, other individuals and groups, and the world that surrounds us.
This site documents the process and the results.
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Networked Publics
By the Networked Publics Research Group,
Annenberg Center for Communication,
University of Southern California
Walter Baer, François Bar, Anne Friedberg,
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Mizuko Ito, Mark E. Kann,
Merlyna Lim, Fernando Ordonez, Todd Richmond,
Adrienne Russell, Marc Tuters, Kazys Varnelis
Networked Publics is the product of the 2005–2006 research year at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for Communication. A team of thirteen scholars spent the year investigating how new and maturing networking technologies are reconfiguring the way we interact with content, media sources, other individuals and groups, and the world that surrounds us.
This book aims to be a scholarly introduction to the field, synthesizing our own fields of research together with what we learned as a group. The book should also be understood as our response to the cultural material and debates that we brought together at the Networked Publics Conference and Media Festival at the Annenberg Center for Communication on April 28 and 29, 2006.
Networked Publics was produced online, using tools such as Writely (now Google Docs) and, as such, is one of the first books to be produced through collaborative software.
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