Article: Mobilising The Mob

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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