Public flocking behavior

In Smart Mobs, Howard Rheingold emphasizes the potential of mobile communications to create a social revolution by enabling new forms of cooperation. He describes the emergent behavior exhibited by thumb tribes of connected teenagers: "the term 'swarming' was frequently used by the people I met in Helsinki to describe the cybernegotiated public flocking behavior of texting adolescents."* [67].

*Rheingold, Howard. Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Perseus Books, 2002. ISBN 0738208612.

Morville, Peter. Ambient Findability. O'Reilly, 2005. ISBN 0596007655.