Article: Mobilising The Mob
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Mobilising The Mob
The new generation of mobile phones users have become more than simply talkers. With the onset of new technological advances, including peer to peer methods and computer-pervaded environments, it is becoming increasingly possible for groups of people to organise and coordinate collective actions on a scale never before imagined. Talk has turned to action.
Consider the following cases in point where mobile phone technology has amplified cooperative human efforts on a scale not historically seen before.
- A million Filipinos toppled President Estrada through public demonstrations organised through salvos of text messages.
- Mobile phones were used by protesters at the 1999 World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle to coordinate the demonstrations, and o...
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