The articles ‘Smart Mobs’ and ‘Crowd and Power’ were distinguishing as to mobs and crowds. What could effectively be called as a mob or crowd is the intriguing question that arose. Mobs can demonstrate various traits like the one that is either formed out of strength or out of fear or maybe just come in collectively to seek comfort. Smart mobs rather are the produce of smart communication and computing technologies brought in together. The impacts of such smart mobs are operative or sometimes also destructive. Effective communication through ubiquitous computing form large groups of people which can be called as smart mob. Crowds thereby is just a gathering of people with seeking of same one intention. Smart mobs could be well illustrated with today’s social networking which brings in people together, to raise their voices and join in a common cause through the medium of internet.

In the essay ‘Entr’acte’ by Jordon Geiger points out the various ways of formation of public spaces. Public spaces is about the spectator masses. Certain protests or workshops or events sometimes bring in the idea of place-making meaning they encourage gathering of people which could be the participants, actors or mere spectators. It causes a collaborative public interaction may it be physical or visual. In ‘The social life of public spaces’, Whyte extensively focuses on observing people in public squares or just road junctions. The point he is trying to imply is that certain spaces become public spaces by just sheer presence of people even if they are not part of any activity, they are onlookers. I would like to apprehend public spaces as just environments where people come in, might stay or watch and leave but they still happen to intermingle with the environment in the meanwhile. Such visual and physical interactions are enough for spread of word, exchange of thoughts or peer to peer interaction and hence can be underlined as Public Spaces in the aspect of social life.