"The traditional process of voting for a candidate every four years and letting the elected get on with it is changing, the fast flow of communication and the capacity of ordinary people to become their own source of information is creating many interesting and profound shifts in power and expectations of politics, and we want to explore how and with what consequences."

"We needed a network to understand networks, to pull in as much knowledge and understanding as possible together so we have a core advisory panel of leading experts in this area. Eugene Thacker (Georgia Tech), Alex Galloway (NYU), Douglas Kellner (UCLA), Greg Elmer (Ryerson) and Tiziana Terranova (Naples), who will help us draw in more people to the network which will hopefully take on a life of its own.

"We will build a website to help coordinate discussions, build connections to act as a repository of the ideas and knowledge as it develops over the duration of the project. We will also run two networking events in Cambridge and one in the USA to explore these ideas, including talks and roundtables to explore questions and challenges. The advisory board will participate and we will encourage the participation of a wide range of relevant persons, academics, activists, artists and programmers."