Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs
Howard Rheingold,
Inkwell.Vue,
Dec 05, 2002
There are some really good bits in this online chat session with Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs. Rheingold was one of the first writers to recognize the potential of online communities and definitely the first to express what is now a truism: that online communities must be nurtured and grown, not built (if only educational designers had the same insight). In Smart Mobs, Rheingold taps into the way in which the internet empowers previously disaffected groups, creating 'smart mobs.' Rheingold writes, "It seems to me that the act of getting up out of your chair and reading a blog or two about something that interests you is, in itself, a small act of conscious rebellion." Yeah!
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