[rtpnet-tact] Howard Rheingold - Smart Mobs (9/26) (fwd)

[Judy Hallman]

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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:25:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Jones <pjones@metalab.unc.edu>
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Subject: [support] Howard Rheingold - Smart Mobs (9/26)

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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
A Public Talk by
Howard Rheingold

When: Thursday, September 26, 2002
3:30 -- 5:00 p.m.

Where: Pleasants Family Room, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Sponsored by
ibiblio: The Public's Library and Digital Archive
and
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Scholarly Communication Working Group

"Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify
human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already
appear to be both beneficial and destructive, used by some of its earliest
adopters to support democracy and by others to coordinate terrorist
attacks. The technologies that are beginning to make smart mobs possible
are mobile communication devices and pervasive computing inexpensive
microprocessors embedded in everyday objects and environments."

Howard Rheingold is the author of several books, including The Virtual
Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier and Tools for Thought:
The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology. In 1985, Rheingold
became involved in the WELL [Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link], an online
conferencing system, which led to his interest in and writings about
virtual communities. His latest book, Smart Mobs: The Next Social
Revolution, will be published in November 2002. For more information about
Howard Rheingold, visit his website at http://www.rheingold.com.


When: Thursday, September 26, 2002
3:30 -- 5:00 p.m.

Where: Pleasants Family Room, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill



ibiblio: The Public's Library and Digital Archive
<http://www.ibiblio.org>


The Scholarly Communication Working Group is sponsored by
The Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
<ils.unc.edu/schol-com>


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