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Definition
Concept introduced by Howard Rheingold in a book of the same title:
"Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive, used by some of its earliest adopters to support democracy and by others to coordinate terrorist attacks. The technologies that are beginning to make smart mobs possible are mobile communication devices and pervasive computing - inexpensive microprocessors embedded in everyday objects and environments. Already, governments have fallen, youth subcultures have blossomed from Asia to Scandinavia, new industries have been born and older industries have launched furious counterattacks.
Street demonstrators in the 1999 anti-WTO protests used dynamically updated websites, cell-phones, and "swarming" tactics in the "battle of Seattle." A million Filipinos toppled President Estrada through public demonstrations organized through salvos of text messages." (http://www.smartmobs.com/book/book_summ.html)
More Information
Website of the book at (http://www.smartmobs.com/book/book_summ.html
Webcasts
Three-part presentation at the O'Reilly Conference.
URL = Part One, Part Two, Part Three