During 2005-2006, the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California sponsored a research group on "Networked Publics."

Together a team of thirteen scholars explored the roles of audiences, activists, citizens, and producers in maturing networked media ecologies. These changes include but are not limited to the changing relationship between production and consumption, viral and peer-to-peer distribution, and networked lateral political mobilization. Although the Internet is clearly a central player, the group considered media forms both old and new as part of a much broader media ecology undergoing profound social, technical, and cultural transformation.

This web site documented the Networked Publics program through the form of blogs and on-line articles.

As a culmination to the Networked Publics program, the group will be publishing a collaboratively written group book with the MIT Press.