Improv Everywhere, a Good Use of Social Digital Media

While we have watched and read some very negative things about digital media and user-generated content, I wanted to blog about a positive result of these mediums. Improv Everywhere is a great example about how online communities are supportive, original, and fun.

For those who do not know what Improv Everywhere is, it is in essence a flash mob structured around a particular set of actions or achieving a certain goal. Open to everyone, the group organizes events though an e-mail list where they send out information to potential participants. This type of organized event epitomizes both youth participation in social and digital media since it is a 'user' generated spectacle organized through the internet.

Here is a blog post with some of their famous events.