Hi Internet Scholars!
I was doing the reading for this week, and one of the phrases that stuck out for me was Howard Rheingold's phrase "Smart Mobs." He basically said that "Smart mobs emerge when comunication 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."
So here is a link to an article that I found on "Smart Mobs."
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/technology/1057780670.php
(Hmmm...for some reason I am not able to see the little button that turns the link above into a REAL link. Sorry about that. Gremlins in my computer, apparently. It's old-fashioned cut and paste time, I guess!) :)
Have a great week...
Dakota
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Will the idea of everyone carrying a videophone in their hand democratize journalism? A very stimulating and exciting thought. I felt this was quite an interesting article as it inspired me to think about what it would mean to have several, or scores even, of people standing at the site of news happening and recording it and then instantaneously sending it off to YouTube or whatnot. This idea however makes me think less about the affect it may have on journalism per se, but rather on the way this use of technology is going to spread information and news so much faster and to a much wider audience. Maybe we are no longer going to so easily be able to get up from the couch and change the channel whenever another injustice flashes across the screen. Or rather we will. But that same image is going to creep up on our computer, and on our phone, and on our ipod etc. Maybe then we’re going to have to react.
A recent edition of Fortune magazine is all about the power of the network. Its interesting to be reading the print version of this trend and to have an online commentary as well. It's kind of mind boggling to me to have gone to school in an era before students even all had typewriters and it was acceptable to turn in hand written papers, to an era of worldwide student teacher relationships conducted electronically. The implications of worldwide connectedness seems like it has transformative potential almost as profound as that of global warming.
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