Driven by new technologies, flash mobs have increased democracy people power across the world

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FLASH MOBS: Participatory performance art for a cause

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A flash mob is an unrehearsed, spontaneous, contagious and dispersed mass action. Flash mobs first emerged in 2003 as a form of participatory performance art, with groups of people using email, blogs, text messages and Twitter to arrange to meet and perform some kind of playful activity in a public space.