Re: [xmca] re: How Civil Disobedience Improves Crowdsourced Disaster Response

[Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>]

"collective effervescence" = the original means of crowd sourcing.

-gt

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Helen Grimmett
<helen.grimmett@monash.edu>wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Yes, the march came past my hotel too, and I was drawn out by the noise to
> see what was going on. It took me a while to realise it was a protest march
> as it sounded and looked more like a carnival parade. It made me feel quite
> emotional to hear crowds of people singing and making music together as
> this is such a rare occurrence in Australia. I couldn't help but cheer and
> clap as the teachers' union passed by.
>
> But the best bit of all was that all the traffic had been blocked off, and
> it was the only time during my stay in Rome when I could actually get
> across the roads without the feeling of absolute terror!!!!
>
> Thanks for the memory jog. It was certainly one of my treasured Roman
> experiences.
>
> Helen
>
> On 1 September 2012 02:40, Stephen Gabosch <stevegabosch@me.com> wrote:
>
> > (Mike e-mailed the below to me, and perhaps others.)
> >
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > Thanks for the link.
> >
> > The term "crowdsourcing" apparently originated in a 2006 article in
> Wired.
> >  It is a new one for me.
> >
> > When I was in Rome for ISCAR last year a demonstration of about 500 to
> > 1000 people marched by my hotel.  I ran out and joined it for a mile or
> > two.  Its theme was anti-government corruption and raised numerous human
> > rights issues.  The singing was amazing.  Many young people and all ages
> > were there.  The protest was very colorful and striking in the bright
> > Italian sunshine and tree-lined boulevard.
> >
> > I think that demonstration would count as a kind of crowdsourced event.
> >
> > I talked to a few demonstrators who could communicate in English.  The
> > action was not called by a specific organization, but from texting and
> > forwarding text messages over the previous days.  They had been hoping
> for
> > 10,000 people, but the semi-spontaneous event was very high-spirited
> > nevertheless.
> >
> > I happened to be reading a book the other week about the Haymarket
> massacre
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair).  Word-of-mouth in the
> > neighborhoods was much more common among workers in those days than
> today.
> >
> > In that sense, crowdsourcing isn't new, it is just being revived in a
> > world where people despite living in much bigger towns and cities are
> more
> > isolated - something that the new technology seems to be helping change,
> at
> > least a little.
> >
> > - Steve
> >
> >
> > On Aug 29, 2012, at 1:31 PM, mike cole wrote:
> >
> > > of possible interest
> > > mike
> > >
> > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Patrick Meier (iRevolution) <
> > patrick@irevolution.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > This positive feedback loop between civil resistance and crowdsourced
> > disaster response may be of interest to some. It relates to the Pre-Doc I
> > did at Stanford's Program on Liberation Technology last year.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Patrick
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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> Helen Grimmett
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> Faculty of Education
> Monash University, Peninsula Campus
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