The term lightning-accumulate, usually however English Flashmob (flash - lightning; mobilization - also Smart mobilization ("„more intelligently human being-accumulate "“, lat. mobilis - mobile) and/or Smart Mobbing designates a short, apparently spontaneous human being-accumulate at public or halfpublic places or purposeful collective Buhrufen with political meetings with those the participants usually personally do not know each other. Flashmobs are organized over Weblogs, groups of messages, E-Mail chain letters or by mobile phone. Although the origin idea was explicitly unpolitical, there were meanwhile already Flashmobs with political background.

Expiration

A call from the Internet following the participants in a place meet, at which they get further instructions over the actual action place and operational sequence of the Flashmobs. For Flashmobs the lightning-like formation of the Mobs from that is not typical anything, identical acting in the mobilization (e.g. applaudieren, telephone with same contentwise texts), and the sudden dissolution after few minutes.

The whole functions in the snow ball system and in shortest time. The involved ones, "“lightning on runners"”, "“Smart Mobber"” or "“Flash Mobber"” mentioned, emerge then at the agreed upon place at the agreed upon time, in order to follow there briefly and for the ignorant Passanten completely surprisingly one completely sense and contentsless activity.

As fast as humans met, then also solves themselves their group before the eyes of the verdutzten spectators. This strange behavior is affected particularly by the ever faster interhuman communication possibilities.

Examples

Purposefully acting Weblogger or eBay user is examples of Smart Mobs. They have both constructional and destructive potential, which goes the far beyond courses of action of the single individuals involved.

History

This action art developed in the USA, particularly in the large cities. On the basis of an action in New York in June 2003 the Flashmob wave sloshed also fast to Europe over, where there was at the end of of July 2003 first actions in Zurich, Rome and Vienna.

At the beginning of autumn 2003 lost the Flashmob world-wide at resonance. 2004 global Flashmobs took place nevertheless on 25 October 2003 as well as on 18 June. In the autumn 2005 violent actions in Paris and other French cities were partly organized over Smart Mobbing.

Since May 2004 is used for the organization also a Wiki.

On 9 December 2005 around 13:06 clock (MEZ) organized Sportsender euro sport together with Swatch in several European large cities, like Munich or Paris, FlashMobs on the occasion of the football WM Gruppenauslosung. This FlashMob should stand symbolically for the largest football training of all times.

Term and demarcation

Smartmob and Flashmob differ to that extent the fact that a Smartmob can last also longer and not lightning-like must happen; A Flashmob however to be smart does not have. It is worth. The term lightning-accumulate is synonymous for Flashmob.

The term Smart Mobs decreases/goes back to a best-seller of the American psychologist Howard Rhine gold from the year 2003.

Science

Sociologists, future researchers and medium scientists assume therein revolutionary Potenzial and substantial social circulations, which can be released by this spontaneous organization joy. Thus Smart Mobs contributed organized Smart Mobber in the year 2001 in Manila to the fall of the president Joseph Estrada standing under corruption suspicion - wherever the unpopular politician emerged, very fast demonstrations.

One calls the appearance of such interaction phenomena in complex, nonlinear systems Emergenz.

Flashmobs are special development forms of the virtual society (virtual community, on-line Community), which new media use such as mobile telephones and Internet, in order to organize collective actions.

See also

• Mobile Clubbing
• Net culture

Related links

• FlashMobWiki
• Flash mobilization Community
• http://flashmob.twoday.net/
• World-wide one Flashmob on the left of
• http://www.zeit.de/2003/38/Flashmobs
• http://www.sixtus.net/article/45_0_2_0_C/

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