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{{short description|Digital-communication coordinated group}} {{more footnotes|date=May 2016}} [[File:Vienna 2010-11-20 'Kinderrechte' Smart Mob 044.jpg|thumb|upright|Smart mob on the occasion of United Nations Children's Day, Vienna, Austria, November 20, 2010]] A '''smart mob''' is a group whose coordination and communication abilities have been empowered by [[Information and communications technology|digital communication technologies]].<ref name="HarperPalen2006"/> Smart mobs are particularly known for their ability to mobilize quickly.<ref name="HarperPalen2006">{{cite book|author1=R. Harper|author2=L. Palen|author3=A. Taylor|title=The Inside Text: Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-fdDZ66TvbgC&pg=PA290|date=30 March 2006|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4020-3060-4|page=290}}</ref> The concept was introduced by [[Howard Rheingold]] in his 2002 book ''[[Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution]]''.<ref name="Henderson2009">{{cite book|author=Harry Henderson|title=Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Tla6d153uwC|year=2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-1003-5|page=198}}</ref> Rheingold defined the smart mob as follows: "Smart mobs consist of people who are able to act in concert even if they donβt know each other... because they carry devices that possess both communication and computing capabilities".<ref name="Rheingold2007-12">{{cite book|author=Howard Rheingold|title=Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v0ZKQ7aCd2QC&pg=PR12|date=1 March 2007|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=978-0-465-00439-3|page=12}}</ref> In December of that year, the "smart mob" concept was highlighted in the ''[[New York Times]]'' "Year in Ideas".<ref name="NYT-Yearinideas">{{cite news |title=The Year in Ideas: Smart Mobs |last=Thompson |first=Clive |work=New York Times |date=2002-12-15}}</ref>
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