Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Flash Mobs
Smart mobs are becoming more and more popular for many different uses. They are also making it onto television. We saw the comercial for the sidekick in class, but i also recentley saw an episode of CSI Miami that was about smart mobs. They used a different name though, for this type of smart mob. They called it a flash mob.
"A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period of time, then quickly disperse." (Wikipedia)
In the episode of CSI, cell phones were used to text messsage a large group of people to meet at a golf course at a specific time and throw golfballs into one of the sandtraps, and then to run away. When all the golf balls were found there was a body underneath them in the sand and all the golfballs had different fingerprints on them.
"Flash mobs bear certain similarities to political demonstrations, although flash mobs were originally intended to be specifically apolitical. Flash mobs can be seen as a specialized form of smart mob, which is a term and concept forwarded by author Howard Rheingold in his 2002 book Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution."(Wikipedia)
"A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period of time, then quickly disperse." (Wikipedia)
In the episode of CSI, cell phones were used to text messsage a large group of people to meet at a golf course at a specific time and throw golfballs into one of the sandtraps, and then to run away. When all the golf balls were found there was a body underneath them in the sand and all the golfballs had different fingerprints on them.
"Flash mobs bear certain similarities to political demonstrations, although flash mobs were originally intended to be specifically apolitical. Flash mobs can be seen as a specialized form of smart mob, which is a term and concept forwarded by author Howard Rheingold in his 2002 book Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution."(Wikipedia)
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Interesting post. good use of links.
Are flash mobs just a new fad to be used as a plot twist or exploited to sell telephones.
Certainly Howard Rheingold had higher hopes for smart mobs. Is this an empowering autonomous youth culture which can change the world and fight the power? Or is it just a social networking tool that can be used for any sort of social communication from partying to rioting?
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Are flash mobs just a new fad to be used as a plot twist or exploited to sell telephones.
Certainly Howard Rheingold had higher hopes for smart mobs. Is this an empowering autonomous youth culture which can change the world and fight the power? Or is it just a social networking tool that can be used for any sort of social communication from partying to rioting?
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