Smart mob

A acute mob is a accumulation that, adverse to the accepted connotations of a mob, behaves intelligently or calmly because of its exponentially accretion arrangement links. This arrangement enables humans to affix to advice and others, acceptance a anatomy of amusing coordination. Parallels are fabricated to, for instance, fungus molds. The abstraction was alien by Howard Rheingold in his book Acute Mobs: The Next Amusing Revolution. According to Rheingold, acute mobs are an adumbration of the evolving advice technologies that will empower the people. In 2002, the "smart mob" abstraction was accent in the New York Times "Year in Ideas."1

These growing technologies cover the Internet, computer-mediated advice such as Internet Relay Chat, and wireless accessories like adaptable phones and claimed agenda assistants. Methodologies like peer-to-peer networks and common accretion are aswell alteration the agency in which humans adapt and allotment information.

Smart Mobs sometimes are manipulated by the dispatchers who ascendancy the 'mobbing system' (i.e., those who own the acquaintance account and the agency to advanced burning letters to a group) and are induced to could cause ache and affliction to individuals who accept been targeted or singled out for whatever reason.

There is a addiction to accumulate the dynamics of acute mobbing 'covert', and not to altercate such incidents on the internet.