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Howard rheingold email protected is the author of tools for thought, the virtual community, smart mobs, and other books and is currently lecturer at the university of california, berkeley, and stanford university. Smart mobs consist of people who are able to act in concert even if. When we started moving away from selfsufficiencies and began to work together, combing our knowledge, the consequences were far reaching. The 2011 khuzestan protests, known among protesters as the ahvaz day of rage, relates to violent protests, which erupted on 15 april 2011 in iranian khuzestan, to mark an anniversary of the 2005 ahvaz unrest, and as a response to the regional arab spring. Transforming cultures and communities in the age of instant access. Unlike bolter and grussin, who focus on virtual reality, rheingold focuses on the integration of the virtual into. Publication date 2003 topics technology and civilization.
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