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.

Power Mapping

Even as network culture displaces postmodernism, Jameson's aesthetic of cognitive mapping is flourishing. Critical spatial practice has gathered a huge collection of critical mapping projects and essays about mapping today. And if you haven't seen it, of course you should visit the essay that Marc Tuters (one of the coiners of the term 'locative media') and I wrote for the Networked Publics group, Beyond Locative Media.

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