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January 8, 2007 | KatrinVerclas

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cell phone, cityspeak, cronicasmoviles, mobile politics, mobileactive, political expression, sms

The Jessica Lal case in India- people texting messages in real time in to a TV station which displays hundreds of thousands of messages protesting against the corrupt justice system.

Ever since our experimentation with the sms blog (text to a phone number or short code via a gateway and see your text message displayed on a blog or screen) I have been fascinated by the potential of real-time texting or sending photos to public sites or billboards to document, to protest, to proclaim.

Here are a number of creative examples I have come across: CronicasMoviles in Buenos Aires - un weblog artistico y documental donde se registraban fotos tomadas con celular, con una mirada distinta the Buenos Aires. It now has more than 3,000 entries and is an interesting snapshot of culture and life in Buenos Aires.