Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

By J. Barlow. 2003

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Hearing Ordinary Voices: Cultural Studies, Vernacular Creativity and Digital Storytelling (2006, background): “…of hyperbole, or, as Woolgar (2002) would have it, ‘cyberbole’ around the growing accessibility and power of digital technologies, combined with their availability and potential for use by ‘ordinary’ people for radical or democratic ends (for an inﬂuential example see especially Rheingold, 2003).”
Predicting Collaboration Technology Use: Integrating Technology Adoption and Collaboration Research (2010, background): “SMS use in North america is substantially lower, but it is rapidly increasing now that technical issues of interoperability have been resolved [60].”
Digital Network Repertoires and Organizational Hybridity (2007, background): “The timing and character of these were coordinated using the net (Rheingold, 2002, p. 161).”
EPISTEMIC DEMOCRACY WITH DEFENSIBLE PREMISES1 (2013, background): “Propelled by claims in the popular literature that crowds can be wise (Surowiecki 2004) and mobs smart(Rheingold 2002), the CJT is now again widely discussed across various disciplines, even beyond academic circles.”
Race and racism in Internet Studies: A review and critique (2013, background): “As Rheingold (2002) accurately predicted, the ‘next social revolution’ in computing would be the advent of mobile technologies, and this development has had important implications for race, racism and Internet studies.”
The familiar stranger: anxiety, comfort, and play in public places (2004, background): “Flash and Smart Mobs repurpose our existing personal wireless mobile technology to create impromptu social gathering between strangers [11].”
m-Learning: Positioning educators for a mobile, connected future (2007, background): “As a result, communities are no longer only based on geographical proximity, and new ‘tribes’ (Rheingold, 2002) are developing and disbanding according to interest, work patterns, and opportunity.”
Mobeyes: smart mobs for urban monitoring with a vehicular sensor network (2006, background): “with shared interests/goals can pervasively and seamlessly collaborate using wireless mobile devices [1].”
Managing the Paradoxes of Mobile Technology (2005, neutral): “Users develop deep relationships with their mobile devices (Kopomaa, 2000; Rheingold, 2002; Lyytinen and Yoo, 2002).”
Social networks and Internet connectivity effects (2005, background): “This power has been exhibited recently in cases of online activism, e.g. in support of the Zapatista movement in Mexico (Cleaver 1999), and the World Trade Organization protests (N30 Global Day of Action 1999; see also Ronfeldt & Arquilla 2001; Rheingold 2003), as well as grassroots, Internet-based ”
Mobile Landscapes: Using Location Data from Cell Phones for Urban Analysis (2006, background): “People are changing their social and working habits because of the new technology (Rheingold, 2002).”
Communicative Affordances of Mobile Media: Portability, Availability, Locatability, and Multimediality (2015, background): “In the early 2000s Howard Rheingold (2002) marveled at a spectacle that was quite unusual for the period: youth texting on the subway, while walking, and throughout the urban spaces of Japan.”