Exactly. And it doesn't have to be just political; it could be used to
cover any event. At the ALA Winter Meeting here in Boston, anyone who's
blogging the event and has a smartphone could be doing it right now... -ac
SBrisco wrote:
> I'm wondering if this mobcasting would work for librarians marching on
> the capital? What a great way to catch real-time events relating to
> libraries, librarians, and politics at once....?
>
> .....just brainstorming.
>
> ~Shonda Brisco
> Trinity Valley MS /US Librarian
> Fort Worth, TX
> sbrisco021@charter.net
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Carvin" <acarvin@EDC.ORG>
> To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 2:31 PM
> Subject: [LM_NET] blog: when mobile podcasting leads to mobcasting
>
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I've just posted a blog that might be of interest. It's about
>> "mobcasting" -- the idea of combining mobile phone-enable podcasting
>> with smart mob-like group action. Here's a snippet from the blog:
>>
>> "What do I mean by mobcasting? Well, it's really a double entrendre, if
>> you will: a play on both mobile podcasting and Smart Mobs, Howard
>> Rheingold's notion of viral-like social coordination enabled by
>> information and communications technologies. Smart mobs got a lot of
>> hype last year in the mainstream media, usually in the form of
>> surrealistic group performance art initiated over the Internet. But
>> smart mobs are much more powerful than just a group of college kids
>> showing up in an art gallery at 12:15pm, standing on one foot and
>> yelling "Tevye, get off the roof!" before dispersing without further
>> comment. Like the case of SMS use during the anti-Estrada demonstrations
>> in the Philippines, smart mobs can be any form of group social action
>> enabled by ICTs.
>>
>> "A quick example: imagine a large protest at a political convention.
>> During the protest, police overstep their authority and begin abusing
>> protesters, sometimes brutally. A few journalists are covering the
>> event, but not live. For the protestors and civil rights activists
>> caught in the melee, the police abuses clearly need to be documented and
>> publicized as quickly as possible. Rather than waiting for the handful
>> of journalists to file a story on it, activists at the protest capture
>> the event on their video phones -- dozens of phones from dozens of
>> angles. Thanks to the local 3G (or community wi-fi) network, the
>> activists immediately podcast the footage on their blogs. The footage
>> gets aggregated on a civil rights website thanks to the RSS feeds
>> produced by the podcasters' blogs. (Or perhaps they all podcast their
>> footage directly to a centralized website, a la OneWorld TV but with an
>> RSS twist.) This leads to coverage by bloggers throughout the
>> blogosphere, which leads to coverage by the mainstream media, which
>> leads to demands of accountability by the general public. That's
>> mobcasting."
>>
>> To read more, please visit here:
>>
>> http://www.andycarvin.com
>>
>> permalink:
>> http://www.andycarvin.com/000712.html
>>
>> Would love to hear your thoughts on the concept.
>>
>> thanks,
>> ac
>>
>> --
>> -----------------------------------
>> Andy Carvin
>> Program Director
>> EDC Center for Media & Community
>> acarvin @ edc . org
>> http://www.digitaldivide.net
>> http://www.tsunami-info.org
>> Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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