Produced by Fred Johnson, The Network Project is a multi-platform documedia and public engagement initiative that looks at high-speed Internet style communication networks as one of the core, defining infrastructures of 21st century life. A fundamental question of network history: how have U.S. networks, now required for effective participation in civic life, education and government, come to be controlled by a handful of mega-corporations? The Network Project examines the history of development and regulation that has shaped the emergence of these networks. It looks to the future by exploring the truly ‘high-speed’, publicly owned networks being created by local governments all over the US, despite strident opposition from the cable and telephone duopoly.
