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does not classify these crimes as "flash mobs" but rather "multiple offender crimes" that utilize "flash mob tactics". In a report, the NRF noted, "multiple offender crimes tend to involve groups or gangs of juveniles who already know each other, which does not earn them the term 'flash mob'." Mark
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raised the question asking if "the media was responsible for stirring things up", and added that in some cases the local authorities did not confirm the use of social media making the "use of the term flash mob questionable". Amanda
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on July 8, 2004, where it noted it as an "unusual and pointless act" separating it from other forms of smart mobs such as types of performance, protests, and other gatherings. Also recognized noun derivatives are flash mobber and flash mobbing.
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refer to themselves as "flash mobs", but that this use of the term is nonetheless appropriate. Dr. Linda Kiltz drew similar parallels between flash robs and the
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Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society
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Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone
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1151:"Lord of the Ringworld: In Praise of Larry Niven"
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2179:Umberto Eco
2003:Derivations
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452:Flash Crowd
218:Larry Niven
214:Flash Crowd
193:, the term
2796:Categories
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2766:Street art
2595:Bill Wasik
2585:Ivan Stang
2453:Whirl-Mart
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2121:Precursors
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463:References
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367:psychology
350:flash robs
172:conformity
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2565:Ben Masel
2520:Alan Abel
2477:Movements
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344:Flash rob
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283:smart mob
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130:Manhattan
122:Australia
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603:. Canada
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400:—
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322:Legality
301:defines
191:Tasmania
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2734:Related
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237:CĂłrdoba
168:hippies
103:History
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