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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political remix

curated by Steve Anderson, Merlyna Lim, Marc Tuters

Americans, so the argument goes, are largely disaffected from their political system, numbed by multi-million dollar election campaigns, bewildered by statistics and ultimately apathetic and ineffectual when it comes to direct political action. At the same time, recent years have witnessed the rise of a participatory culture that is enabled and promoted by computer networks, remix tactics and growing resistance to the war in Iraq. As media consumers increasingly acquire the tools and skills necessary to act as producers and distributors of their own work, an expanded range of voices has begun to contribute to a widely disseminated sphere of networked political discourse. The Political Remix program highlights a variety of these productions, each of which defies some aspect of the conventional wisdom regarding the fundamentally apolitical nature of postmodern culture. At stake in this investigation is an emergent understanding of the ways media practitioners are enacting new forms of networked community and political discourse that is specific to a participatory, recombinant, DIY authoring mode.

Bushwacked 2

http://downloads.warprecords.com/bushwhacked2.mov (00:04:07)

David Smab

Reading between the lines of George W. Bush’s State of the Union speech in 2002, David Smab’s elegantly edited video reveals the true intentions behind the President’s political platitudes and generalizations.

George Bush Don't Like Black People

http://www.guerrillanews.com/videos/viewer.php?id=40&n=1 (00:03:51)

Franklin Lopez (video) and The Legendary K.O. (music).

Franklin Lopez’s video enigmatically mimics the form of a silent-era film, complete with title cards and convulsive black-and-white images of the devastation that followed Hurricane Katrina, all set to the tune of The Legendary KO remix of Kanye West's Golddigger.

Bush for Peace

http://www.bushforpeace.us/bushforpeace.mov (00:01:56)

Jen Simmons and Sarah Christman

Jen Simmons and Sarah Christman’s Bush for Peace offers a wistful look at what a presidential speech might look like if America had actually become the kinder, gentler nation it once proclaimed itself to be.

Imagine This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7meAXUguTQo (00:04:38)

John Callaghan (video) and Wax Audio (music)

Although the first Gulf war was supposed to have erased our collective memory of the “Vietnam syndrome,

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