{"id":7004,"date":"2006-07-23T16:10:55","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T16:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/23\/rheinghold-smar\/"},"modified":"2006-07-23T16:10:55","modified_gmt":"2006-07-23T16:10:55","slug":"rheinghold-smar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/23\/rheinghold-smar\/","title":{"rendered":"Rheinghold, “Smart Mobs”"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>\n

Rheinghold,
\n Howard. "Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many." Vitanza
\n 89-120.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

"Smart mobs are an unpredictable but at least partially describable emergent
\nproperty that I see surfacing as more people use mobile telephones, more chips
\ncommunicate with each other, more computers know where they are located, more
\ntechnology becomes wearable, more people start using these new media to invent
\nnew forms of sex, commerce, entertainment, communion, and, as always, conflict"
\n(115).<\/p>\n

An virtual enthusiast, Rheingold covers a range of issues related to
\nwireless, handheld and portable devices (wearable computing) while considering
\nthe potentials of digitally enabled collectivity. His examples are
\nprimarily political and popular press (news items). He recounts the power
\nstruggle of Philippine President Joseph Estrada and the impact of "smart mobs"
\nin toppling the regime. Because cellular phones are so inexpensive, the
\ncitizen (peer-to-peer) journalism they enable is potentially a major force in
\nsocial and political change. Rheinghold the technical infrastructure as "a
\nsocial instrument" (93). <\/p>\n

"Examples later in this chapter demonstrate that smart mobs engaging in
\neither violent or nonviolent netwar represent only a few of the many possible
\nvarieties of smart mob.[…] Networks include nodes and links, use many possible
\npaths to distribute information from any link to any other, and are
\nself-regulated through flat governance hierarchies and distributed power" (96).
\nRheingold goes on to clarify–is this a given yet?–that networks and networking
\ntechnologies are neither inherently good nor inherently bad (97). <\/p>\n

Rheingold’s discussion of "personal awareness devices" is very
\ninteresting–related to "reputation systems" (98) and GPS. Basically, the
\nlocative devices enable real-time social positioning notifications. ^I
\nstill find it fascinating that such devices might be used to observe patterns at
\nan academic conference, such as the CCCC. <\/p>\n

"What if smart mobs could empower entire populations to engage in
\npeer-to-peer journalism?" (101).<\/p>\n

"’Mobile ad hoc social network’ is a longer, more technical term than ‘smart
\nmob.’ Both terms describe the new social form made possible by the combination
\nof computation, communication, reputation, and location awareness. The mobile
\naspect is already self-evident to urbanites who see the early effects of mobile
\nphones and SMS" (103). <\/p>\n

"The research is as much behavioral as it is computational, beginning with
\nsimple experiments matching properties of mobile computing with the needs of
\nsocial networks" (104).<\/p>\n

"Trust means a distributed reputation system" (106).<\/p>\n

"The coordinated movements of schools and flocks is a dynamically shifting
\naggregation of individual decisions" (110).<\/p>\n

"Oscillation is one of the standard and simplest emergent phenomena" (111).
\n^ Connect this with Lanham in Economics of Attention<\/i>?<\/p>\n

Terms: Goffman’s "interaction order" (105), "epidemics of cooperation" (108),
\n"synchronization of brain processes" (111), <\/p>\n

\n
Related sources:<\/dt>\n
Ball, Philip. Critical Mass. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004.<\/dd>\n
Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life<\/i>. Garden
\n City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1959.<\/dd>\n
Granovetter, Mark. "Threshold Models of Collective Behavior, " American
\n Journal of Sociology<\/i>. 83.6 (1978): 1420-1443.<\/dd>\n
Huberman, Bernardo. "The Social Mind." Origins of the Human Brain<\/i>.
\n Jean-Pierre Changeuz and Jean Chavaillon, eds. Oxford: Clarendon, 1995: 250.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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