Key: AWL to Study, Low-frequency Vocabulary
What is a Smart Mob?

• Smart Mobs evolved as a consequence of modern communication technologies.
 SMS (short message service) or texting
• Raves
 the first Smart Mobs
Can you list a few examples of modern communication technologies?

• Young people in Tokyo and Helsinki sent the first text messages to give the location of the next big dance event.
 A single message can be sent to an address book.
 SMS technology allows large groups to form quickly.
Do you like to send text messages? Why or why not?

• Smart Mobs
 large groups empowered by Internet-enhanced communication devices
 turning up everywhere to accomplish diverse goals
What types of goals do you think a Smart Mob can achieve?

• A massive demonstration against a corrupt Filipino leader was organized through the use of SMS.
What is a corrupt political leader?

• Anti–Miss World and WTO demonstrations were also mobilized through the use of SMS.
Have you ever witnessed or taken part in a demonstration? Explain.

• An English major shot and killed 32 people at Virginia
Tech High School.
 Texting, webcam, and cellphone video were used to let victims know how to avoid danger.
Have you ever used a webcam or cellphone video?

• Critical-mass bike rides are an international
phenomenon.
 Rides are organized via web postings and mobile phone trees.
• Goal
 to demonstrate that cycling is a practical alternative to driving.
Do you support the goal of this movement?

• Dating services are part of some cellphone packages.
 Fill in a personality profile.
 Find out when a potential match is in close range.
• Tracking device powered by Bluetooth technology
 short-range radio frequency operates within 10-meter radius
What is your opinion of dating using Bluetooth technology?

• Dating via texting and Bluetooth technology is taking off in a big way.
• India, Saudi Arabia, and UAE
 Dating prior to marriage is not accepted by the majority.
 Without parents’ knowledge, young people are meeting and getting to know potential mates.
How do your parents feel about your texting habits?

• Large groups pirate music, video, and software.
• The peer-to-peer paradigm connects individual computers to transfer specific files.
 This process is illegal.
 Creative software makes it almost impossible to track users.
Have you ever used peer-to-peer software?

• Makes use of the unused power of individual computers
 Users download screensavers.
 Combined computer power assists in treatment of diseases, weather prediction for global warming, and searching for extra-terrestrial intelligence.
• The shared power of millions:
 another Smart Mob?
Would you donate your computer’s unused power to serve a good cause? Explain.