2008 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal

Abstract

The proposal is to create a reciprocal pair of websites looking at class in the U.S. today. They Rule is an existing website, showing the interlocking directories of the top 500 U.S. corporations. Visitors to the site can arrange icons of the companies and their directors into maps which they can annotate and share with others. Currently the data is static and now out of date. I want to make it so that a community of visitors to the site can keep the information up to date through a wiki-style database.