Do you remember the Seseña’s case?
On 30th of March a thirteen years old girl called Cristina Martin de la Sierra Montilla disappeared. She was in a street market with his mother when she received a classmate’s phone call. Her mother allow her to met the girl if she came back home in an hour. Sadly, Cristina could not get back. Her corpse was found at 12.30 on 3rd of May in an abandon gypsum manufacture. The murder was the fourteen years old classmate she met.
I was in Seseña when this catastrophe happened. My house is around two minutes walking from where Christina’s family live. Lots of my friends, who live in the village, knew the girl and the murder.
When this happened, a huge activity circulates around a Spanish social network: tuenti. I received thousand of Cristina friends’ events about her case in three distinguished moments of the crime:
1. When she disappeared, lots of people create events with Christina’s photo asking people to pass it. They achieved that everyone, who does not know Cristina, has her image in their minds so as to locate her.
2. When the murder confessed the crime in the Friday questioning (Cristina had disappeared on Tuesday) her photo and her name was shown all over the social network. Lots of false profile started to create events with the photo of the still supposed fourteen years old murder with the word “murder” on the bottom of the image. They created an accusation state of opinion.
3. When Cristina’s corpse was found the previous events became “rest in peace” (D.E.P) ones, where people express their sadness for what had happened and their moral support to her family.
For a moment I felt like Howard Rheingold when he became aware of the strength of technology to create social movements. The social network flows allow people, like me, to know what was happening immediately.
The states of opinions create in the “offline” world lead to a social state of opinion in the real world. Where I was in Seseña in a popular bar I witness some serious discussions which traduce the pressure situations lived in the web. I heard people discussing about the legitimacy of sending the murder photo all over the web. Other people blame on foreign habitants because in the social network it was said that the murder was Cuban. In fact, because of the serious accidents that were happening, the mayor Manuel Fuentes said to the TV that he was worried of a possible “with hunt”.
However, the implications of the modern communication media were not just those. On 10th April, the “mob” organised a manifestation so as to ask for changes in the younger law. I received lots of events in tuenti or facebook but I also received thirteen text messages asking me for collaboration in the manifestation. This new technologies allow people to be connected and coordinated so as to create a big demonstration which leaded in a social change. The village answer to the crime has opened again the younger law debate.
I become aware that the union atmosphere around the hurt of the family, which was created in the social network, lead to an active response developed in blogs, other social networks and telephone mobiles. This also caused a demonstration which question, at a global level, the law of the younger. The crowd became a medium, a site for the generation of expectation and circulation of messages. The crowd, the social movement created, was a kind of communication power itself.
The crowd became a collective intelligence thanks of the flows created in Internet. As an organism the flows from law-level rules to higher level sophistication came out into a emerge intelligence. This collective intelligence, this “Social Mind”, is what characterised smart mobs, a new social form made possible by a combination of computation, communication, reputation, and location awareness, which made them more that the sum of their parts.
With this experience I realized that:
(Cristina's photo was provided by her father to the media, I took it from laradiosencilla.blogspot.com; the demonstration photo was provided by a Seseá's neighbourd)
On 30th of March a thirteen years old girl called Cristina Martin de la Sierra Montilla disappeared. She was in a street market with his mother when she received a classmate’s phone call. Her mother allow her to met the girl if she came back home in an hour. Sadly, Cristina could not get back. Her corpse was found at 12.30 on 3rd of May in an abandon gypsum manufacture. The murder was the fourteen years old classmate she met.
I was in Seseña when this catastrophe happened. My house is around two minutes walking from where Christina’s family live. Lots of my friends, who live in the village, knew the girl and the murder.
When this happened, a huge activity circulates around a Spanish social network: tuenti. I received thousand of Cristina friends’ events about her case in three distinguished moments of the crime:
1. When she disappeared, lots of people create events with Christina’s photo asking people to pass it. They achieved that everyone, who does not know Cristina, has her image in their minds so as to locate her.
2. When the murder confessed the crime in the Friday questioning (Cristina had disappeared on Tuesday) her photo and her name was shown all over the social network. Lots of false profile started to create events with the photo of the still supposed fourteen years old murder with the word “murder” on the bottom of the image. They created an accusation state of opinion.
3. When Cristina’s corpse was found the previous events became “rest in peace” (D.E.P) ones, where people express their sadness for what had happened and their moral support to her family.
For a moment I felt like Howard Rheingold when he became aware of the strength of technology to create social movements. The social network flows allow people, like me, to know what was happening immediately.
The states of opinions create in the “offline” world lead to a social state of opinion in the real world. Where I was in Seseña in a popular bar I witness some serious discussions which traduce the pressure situations lived in the web. I heard people discussing about the legitimacy of sending the murder photo all over the web. Other people blame on foreign habitants because in the social network it was said that the murder was Cuban. In fact, because of the serious accidents that were happening, the mayor Manuel Fuentes said to the TV that he was worried of a possible “with hunt”.
However, the implications of the modern communication media were not just those. On 10th April, the “mob” organised a manifestation so as to ask for changes in the younger law. I received lots of events in tuenti or facebook but I also received thirteen text messages asking me for collaboration in the manifestation. This new technologies allow people to be connected and coordinated so as to create a big demonstration which leaded in a social change. The village answer to the crime has opened again the younger law debate.
I become aware that the union atmosphere around the hurt of the family, which was created in the social network, lead to an active response developed in blogs, other social networks and telephone mobiles. This also caused a demonstration which question, at a global level, the law of the younger. The crowd became a medium, a site for the generation of expectation and circulation of messages. The crowd, the social movement created, was a kind of communication power itself.
The crowd became a collective intelligence thanks of the flows created in Internet. As an organism the flows from law-level rules to higher level sophistication came out into a emerge intelligence. This collective intelligence, this “Social Mind”, is what characterised smart mobs, a new social form made possible by a combination of computation, communication, reputation, and location awareness, which made them more that the sum of their parts.
With this experience I realized that:
“A diversity of cooperation threshold among individuals can tip a crowd into a sudden epidemic cooperation”(Howard Rheingold)
(Cristina's photo was provided by her father to the media, I took it from laradiosencilla.blogspot.com; the demonstration photo was provided by a Seseá's neighbourd)
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I loved this post and I shared it on Shared news. I love the way you weave the idea of "smart mob" with the daily reality.
thanks for your comments!!
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