They Rule

2002

Prix Ars Electronica 2002: Golden Nica / Net Excellence

They make decisions that effect all of us: They Rule. A visualization of the interrelationships among America’s economic and political power elites—and how they themselves profit from their relations. They Rule uses a social filtering system: visitors to the site can arrange and annotate the corporate connections they find, hiding some, stressing others and adding URLs to add to the qualitative information on the site.