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Novara FM: When Does a Crowd Become a Mob?

Received wisdom tells us that large groups of people are generally up to no good – but this is a convenient fantasy for the powers that be, explains the author of Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World.

Analysis: GameStop: How the Online Crowd Stormed the FinTech Scene

Paolo Gerbaudo

This week, an army of Reddit day traders inflated GameStop's stock price and gave the big boys of Wall Street a bloody nose. Paolo Gerbaudo explains how it happened - and how the online crowd can transform individual weakness into collective strength.

ACFM: #ACFM Trip 13: Crowds

With the pandemic keeping us in isolation, the crew return to discuss crowds. Are they forums for collective joy, or platforms for demagoguery?

ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Ece Temelkuran on Crowds

Nadia Idle speaks to Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran about the potency of crowds.

From Me to We: in an Emergency, Collectivise to Survive

John Drury, Stephen Reicher and Clifford Stott

Acting as individuals in collective situations is a recipe for disaster, write social psychologists John Drury, Stephen Reicher and Clifford Stott, but a rhetoric of unity accompanied by a reality of division will only increase social tensions.

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