Smart Mobs

{{Short description|2002 book by Howard Rheingold}}

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| name = Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

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| image = Smart mobs - bookcover.jpg

| caption = Softcover edition

| author = Howard Rheingold

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| subject = Sociology, technology

| genre = Non-fiction

| publisher = Basic Books

| pub_date = 15 October 2002

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| media_type = Print, e-book

| pages = 288 pp.

| isbn = 0-7382-0608-3

| congress= HM846 .R54 2002

| oclc= 50819606

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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution is a book by Howard Rheingold dealing with the social, economic and political changes implicated by developing technology. The book covers subjects from text-messaging culture to wireless Internet developments to the impact of the web on the marketplace. The author highlights the many ways in which technology alters and impacts the way in which people live and think.{{Cite journal |last=Courrier |first=Kathleen |date=2002 |editor-last=Rheingold |editor-first=Howard |title=Broadband on the run |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43312308 |journal=Issues in Science and Technology |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=93–94 |jstor=43312308 |issn=0748-5492}}{{Cite journal |last=Stoecker |first=Randy |date=2004 |title=Review of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3593850 |journal=Contemporary Sociology |volume=33 |issue=6 |pages=681–682 |doi=10.1177/009430610403300627 |jstor=3593850 |issn=0094-3061|url-access=subscription }}