On the contrary, crowd actions remarkably similar to flash mobs took place in Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York as early as the Revolutionary War, unsettling the presumption that flash mobs are a new species of performance uniquely enabled by digital technology. Drawing on examples both past ...
in new york city this past may. virtually none of the many mob events have resulted in violence, although police have taken an interest in a few of the gatherings. on saturday, according to a report in the sun sentinel newspaper , police broke up south florida's first attempt at a ...
Photos and accounts of last night’s New York flash mob have been posted at the usual places:moistandtasty.com,fredhoysted.comandsatanslaundromat.com. Apparently the flash mob scheduled for last night in Toronto wascancelleddue to “overwhelming media coverage and police presence.” Last night’s...
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Mobs in the Age of Mobile Connectivity * Judith A. Nicholson Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montréal. The first flash mobbing is legendary now, though not uncontested. It happened in Manhattan, New York, between 7:27 pm and 7:37 pm on June 17, 2003. Summoned by text messages...
This is a suretip for me to play Methuselah straight across the board in the next handicap.' "I can imagine the tortured feelings of a prisoner in the hands of New York policemenwhen an infuriated mob demands that he be turned over to them for lynching. "ForGod's sake, officers,' ...
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution: Transforming Communities in the Age of Instant Access, Howard Rheingold, Basic Books, New York City (2002), 288 pages, paper, $16 Markets, Mobs and Mayhem: A Modern Look at the Madness of Crowds, Robert Menschel, John Wiley & Sons, New York Ci...
still in circulation: we keep thinking there is more collective wisdom in the collective than madness in the mob — and we are constantly surprised when the crowd goes wild. It keeps happening, decade after decade; our modern world has even coined a new phrase for this delusion: crowdsourcing...