by Howard Rheingold · Basic Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780738208619
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«Smart Mobs» is Howard Rheingold's essay on technology and society, published by Basic Books in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Rheingold anticipates a techno-cultural revolution driven by mobile communications: phones, digital assistants and wireless internet connect people anytime, anywhere. With examples such as text-message activism and the dark side of these networks, he shows that their impact depends on how they are used, resisted or adapted.
Revised edition of 2003; the essay was originally published in 2002 and includes bibliography and index.
Work for readers interested in technology, digital culture and the social effects of mobile communication.
Howard Rheingold is an American critic, writer, and teacher, known for his specialties on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities.
