A smart mob could be defined as a group of people performing some unusual behavior than usual, behavior that is intelligent and/or efficient emerged out of technology and network links, enabling people to connect to information and others, to perform a task allowing a form of social coordination. These growing technologies include the Internet, computer-mediated communication such as Internet Relay Chat, and wireless devices like mobile phones and personal digital assistants. Some of the factors like curiosity, fear, comfort, strength play a vital role in creation of smart mob. The impacts of smart mob technology could be both beneficial and destructive. However, it is interesting to notice that how the technology is influencing the use of the space by smart mob. The ‘MP3 Experiment by Improv Everywhere’ is a good example to understand the above statement. In the MP3 experiment one can observe that the mob is the organized gathering by digital media.

Also it is interesting to think on the question that ‘how will you define yourself in a public space?’ In my opinion, it’s not you but you intention of going to any public space could possibly define you in that space. It could also define you as an actor or a spectator of that space. Let’s consider one example where a public workshop of some sort is happening is a public space. In my view that their internal coordination is so tight that people around who are totally clueless about the activities would feel awkward to interact with the mob to understand what is going on. They would just stay in the background as a spectator or observer. Their observation period is affected by their schedule, surrounding architecture, whether etc. Again, this can be very well observed in the MP3 experiment. The point I want to make it here is, such ‘workshops’ do not necessarily create social or public interactions. Both the articles, ‘The next social revolution by Howard Rheingold and Entr’acte by Jordan Geigar’ talk more in depth about the smart mob and public space formation with new growing technologies.