In the youth environment, this concept has long been known, although there is only a dozen years. But the older generation don't always know what was going on. So, flash mob - what is it?
“Flash mob" is an English word, or rather, the combination of the words: “flash” - “a lightning flash, moment” and “mob” - “a group of people, company, crowd”. In fact, for the first time have combined these two concepts - “moment” and “crowd” is an American science fiction writer Larry Niven, who created in the 70s years of the twentieth century a story about cheap teleportation in the future. However, his term sounded like “flash crowd”.
In 2002 published a book by American sociologist Howard Rheingold, who predicted that in the XXI century people will come together for mass actions, using the growing possibilities of information technology. Such a structured, culturally different group called "smart mob" - "smart mob". But what about a flash mob?
Today, under this term is understood a mass rally, in which participated a group of people, often unfamiliar with each other. They gather in the appointed place, behave in a certain way within a specified period of time, and then quickly (instantly) apart, as if dissolving in the crowd, as if nothing had happened.
The Organization of flash mobs is via electronic communications, such as cell phones or the Internet. Participants called mobbers, post news about the venue, time and theme of an upcoming event in blogs, pages of social networks or specially created Internet site. Sometimes also used e-mail or SMS message.
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The Official date of birth of the flash mob is considered to be 17 June 2003. On this day about a hundred people gathered around an expensive rug in the biggest Department store in the world – new York “Macy’s” and told the sellers that live as a commune on the outskirts of the metropolis, in stock, and would like to purchase “the Rug of love”.
The success of the project was so high that it like a tsunami swept across America, Europe and other continents. The mobbers were applauded for 15 seconds in the lobby of the hotel "Hyatt" presented to tourists in a Shoe store in SOHO. Organizer of the first American shares was the chief editor «Harper’s” bill Wasik. He thought they were funny campaign mocking the party-goers. However, the flash mob began their victorious March across the planet.
The First European event was held on 24 July of the same year in Rome. Three hundred people gathered at a bookstore, demanding from sellers of books with non-existent names. 16 August 2003 hosted the first flash mobs in Russia and Ukraine.
But is it really so new phenomenon – the flash mob? What it is – sign the twenty-first century, or well forgotten old? Experts believe that similar events had happened before: organized groups of people went without pants in the subway, was collected from different regions of the country for Cycling, instantly “freeze” at the new York station, frozen in various poses. However, just today, the flash mob has become a truly mass action. For example, in one of the actions in Chicago in 2009 was attended by over 20 thousand people. Today, developed terminology and rules of this movement, his name has firmly settled into academic editions of dictionaries and the media.
The Goal of each share depends on its type. Usually they are organized for the spontaneous amusement of the participants and bewilderment of passers-by: people EN masse to dance, sing, lie on the floor of supermarkets, dress up in costumes mods, hugging passers-by, participate in pillow fights, freeze, looking at the sky, launching Chinese lanterns. But some actions are conducted with political or commercial purposes.
The Best flash mobs – absurd, mysterious, seem spontaneous, lead casual viewers to confusion and even shock. Watch a wonderful movie “Step forward 4”. It's not just a great mass dances. The picture will show you a real flash mob: what it is, how it is organized and what consequences it can have.
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