smart mob
smart mob noun: a group whose members do not know each other but are able to coordinate their actions through digital communication.
Noun
smart mob (plural smart mobs)
- A group whose members do not know each other but are able to coordinate their actions through digital communication.
- Smart mobs consist of people who are able to act in concert even if they don't know each other. The people who make up smart mobs cooperate in ways never before possible because they carry devices that possess both communication and computing capabilities.2002, Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, Cambridge, M.A.: Perseus Publishing, →ISBN, page xii
- This impulse for participation has upended the economy and is steadily turning the sphere of social networking – smart mobs, hive minds, and collaborative action – into the main event.2005 August 1, Kevin Kelly, “We Are the Web”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2023
Forms of smart mob
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Origin of smart mob
Coined by American journalist Howard Rheingold in his 2002 book Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (see quotation below).
Questions about smart mob
- What does smart mob mean?
- Smart mob means a group whose members do not know each other but are able to coordinate their actions through digital communication.
- What part of speech is smart mob?
- Smart mob is a noun.
- What is the plural of smart mob?
- The plural of smart mob is smart mobs.
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