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• ‘Twitter, SMS seen playing marginal news role - study’

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 527
  Young people do not expect micro blogging services like Twitter and SMS to take on any real role as news sources over the next twenty years. Internet is a trusted and reliable medium for young people, although only those in their twenties and thirties take much news from the internet. Around 87 percent of 13-65 ...
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• New York City’s street gangs are becoming tweet gang

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 527
  Some groups of teenagers in Harlem use the messaging website Twitter, via their mobile phones, to organize street fights and other shady activities. Manhattan’s young thugs have turned to Twitter, and the cops who track them are fast behind, the Daily News has learned. Investigators are monitoring the traffic in ...
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• Space2.0 scenario for Locast Civic Media

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 527
  The Mobile Experience Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focuses on creative and radical designs to recapture connections between people, information, and physical places, using cutting-edge information technology to improve peoples’ lives through meaningful experiences. Their Locast Civic Media ...
  2 days ago

• Twitizen Journalism : how it’s done

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 527
  How can newspapers, books, and magazines thrive in the internet age? and understand the new medium? Darron Rowse refers to Jason Preston from Eat Sleep Publish (follow him at @jasonp107 ). Jason asks if Twitter can be a real news platform? For centuries, “journalist,” “reporter,” and ...
  3 days ago

• WikiLeaks opens leaked documents

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 527
  WikiLeaks “ … could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act. „ — Time Magazine WikiLeaks says about itself : “ We open governments ” For a general introduction on WikiLeaks check the Wikipedia info and watch Wikileaks’ Julian Assange discussing the ...
  5 days ago

• Text messages sent on 9/11

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 527
  CNN 11/25 : Web site posts what it says are half million text messages from 9/11 Newly released text messages reportedly from the morning of September 11, 2001, show panicked family members trying to contact loved ones and officials frantically trying to grasp what was happening. More than half a million ...
  6 days ago

• Tear Down the Great Firewall !!

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 527
  “Mr. Hu Jintao, Tear Down the Great Firewall!” from China Digital Times on Vimeo . China Digital Times reports on the twitter mobbing of a virtual wall set up on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the coming down of the Berlin Wall. The CDT report includes the above video, and begins: To commemorate ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Starfish Revolution? in Iran

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 527
  Observers are talking about the Iranian uprisings of 2009 in smartmobbing terms. Here is part of such an analysis by Michael Ledeen : Several thoughtful people have commented on an unusual element in the Iranian revolutionary movement, aka “The Green Path of Hope.”  Although there is a troika (Mousavi, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Citizen Cell Journalism

  
  hyperlocal 101 — Authority: 100
  Cell Journalism: The use of a cellular phone to capture up to the minute breaking news from around the world. Cell journalism can occur through the submission of direct phone call, citizen reviews, citizen news reports, interviews, text messages, photographs and or video capture by cell. Cell phones are highly mobile ...
  3 weeks ago

• Volunteers needed: getting ready for hurricane relief

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 527
  Andy Carvin says , in regard to a potential emergent collective disaster response: So it looks like we’re going to get a hurricane after all this season. Ida is expected to make landfall on the Gulf Coast near the Alabama/Florida border late Monday or early Tuesday. I’ve already started updating the feeds on the ...
  3 weeks ago

• After-school Stampede or Flash Mob Burglary?

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 527
  A recent blog-posting from AirAmerica highlighted a recent surveillance video depicting youth rampaging through a convenience store.  The video in question was published with dramatized commentary portraying the youth as miscreants (literally a plague of locust) bent on using flash-mobs to bring chaos and ...
  5 weeks ago

• New Howard Rheingold interview by Shel Israel

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 527
  Shel Israel , author of the excellent new book, Twitterville , has published the first part of an interview with me: SM Global Report: Howard Rheingold, Part 1 : With a billion people on the Internet and 4 billion mobile phones, the ability to gain information, to process it computationally, to organize collective ...
  5 weeks ago

• SM Global Report: Howard Rheingold, Part 1

  
  Global Neighbourhoods — Authority: 501
  Where weve been [     [ Howard Rheingold in his backyard giant sunflower patch. Photo by Shel Israel ] Howard Rheingold is a founding father of the Conversational Era. He has spent much of his past 40 years exploring the impact and promise of theconvergence of technology and the human ...
  5 weeks ago

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