Review of the 7th Mass Media

Over at Smart Mobs, we have received a great review of the whitepaper on mobile as the 7th Mass Media

So thank you Howard Rheingold creator of Smart Mobs and Marius Chitosca Author of the post

The review reads

With a fluid and wisely ironic style, the mobile strategies expert Alan Moore shares with us a collection of personal opinions that link together towards supporting more strongly the Connected Age theory that he and Tomi T. Ahonen assembled in 2005 in Communities Dominate Brands.
Paraphrasing an analogy in Communities Dominate Brands, while the fixed Internet steamed ?the pulleys and the belts? of the Network Age?s engine, the private, always-on, and reachable mobile technology turned into the warp drive of modern communities in the Connected Age. Ferdinand Tonnies? organic and personal Gemeinschaft is presently pulled to the edge of deep critical metamorphosis by the always connected mobile technology that dissolves old distances and disparities between people, like space, time, race, and ethnicity, in order to re-blend once isolated individuals into smart mobs, homogenized around common interests. Sharing information via mobiles becomes the main tool for enlightening and empowering masses and for building a new meaning for their ?unity of will.? The phenomenon of ?connectedness? inverses the terms in the famous equation of “information equals power” by taking the information’s flow from the closed-doors monopolizing elites and pouring it into the veins and tissues of a young social body formed by the increasingly aware and active grassroots. The new economics and social dynamics in the digital era are based on sharing, not holding information.

Moving to the advertising sector, Alan thinks that the new mobile platform is the ground for far greater developments comparing to the traditional ad business of the classic media, due to the nature and expansion of the mobile technology that make the advertising messages more personal, thus more meaningful. This adds a new dimension to the viral and mouth-to-mouth marketing strategies, making them faster, more focused on appropriate customer audiences, and this way perhaps less expensive. The author mentions statistics, like 3 times more cell phones than TV sets worldwide, high rates of connectivity (like the 90% of the Korean teenagers being hooked into Cyworld) and qualitative examples of modern communication tools and mobile communities, like Cyworld, the iPhone, blyk, Admob, MyNuMo, Artist First, Moblog UK, to back up and illustrate his affirmations.

Very surprisingly, in the past and even now, some businesses weren?t and still aren?t aware of the mobile network?s potential. Alan confesses that, for many years, as a foreseeing prophet of the 7th Mass Media, he was ?the voice of the one who shouts in the desert? during business meetings. And that proved to be to the disadvantage of many corporate board audiences that should have listened and take action. Mobile is definitely a revolutionary technology, considered as the 7th mass media, and the expert?s recommendation is not to miss a technological revolution.

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