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TXTmob: text messaging for protest swarms

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
CHI '05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Portland, OR, USA

SESSION: Late breaking results: short papers table of contents

Pages: 1455 - 1458

Year of Publication: 2005

ISBN:1-59593-002-7

Authors

Tad Hirsch	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
John Henry	Institute for Applied Autonomy

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 11, Downloads (12 Months): 81, Citation Count: 3

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ABSTRACT

This paper describes cell phone text messaging during the 2004 US Democratic and Republican National Conventions by protesters using TXTmob -- a text-message broadcast system developed by the authors. Drawing upon analysis of TXTmob messages, user interviews, self-reporting, and news media accounts, we describe the ways that activists used text messaging to share information and coordinate actions during decentralized protests. We argue that text messaging supports new forms of distributed participation in mass mobilizations.

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