As described by Kavita Philip in Your Computer is On Fire, the Alpha60 project measures media (tv/film/video/data) flows on peer-to-peer networks, and uses that information to create a public and reception-focused index of peer swarm behavior: cumulative size, geographies for the biggest swarms, rate of decline, day-over day growth, etc. The goal is to make global media flows visible, and to conceptualize analytical methods for media distribution and reception that are explicitly global in nature and unbound from existing corporate and nation-state-centered models that require proprietary information and/or access.
