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I wanted to find out if psychologists have been doing research into on-line comments, discussions, media.<\/p>\n

I have noticed virtual unanimity among the Twitter stream for the UBB hashtag<\/a>. Dissent breads contempt and I have apparently become a lightning rod for the malicious attacks wrought by many who are on the other side of the issue with no interest in engaging in a discussion of the broader issues. But that isn’t what I am writing about today.<\/p>\n

It is to try to stimulate the social scientists and political scientists among my more academically inclined colleagues to engage in some research on the behaviour of anonymous groups. There is an interesting piece by Geoff Livingston called The Ethics of Flash Mobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI prefer to live in a society in which laws, however corruptly enforced, not mobs, decide who is guilty and how to punish them,\u201d said\u00a0Howard Rheinghold<\/a>, author of Smart Mobs. \u201cThere is the public sphere in which demonstrations and boycotts are legitimate actions, and online flash mobs tipped presidential elections in Korea and Spain. But drowning out voices of dissent has no place in a democracy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is an interesting research project. Political operatives will want to understand how to manipulate flash mobs for electoral support, and need to understand the level of credibility to grant to such movements.<\/p>\n

An article in the St. Petersburg Times, Online anonymity creates a mob mentality<\/a>, speaks of\u00a0the rage that seems to be overtaking e-mails, chat rooms and Web postings, causing University of South Florida psychologist Jennifer Bosson to\u00a0ask, “Are people that angry all the time?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wanted to find out if psychologists have been doing research into on-line comments, discussions, media. I have noticed virtual unanimity among the Twitter stream for the UBB hashtag. Dissent breads contempt and I have apparently become a lightning rod for the malicious attacks wrought by many who are on the other side of the …<\/p>\n

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