Different points of view on formation, functioning and development of a crowd are revealed; its modern definition and classification is given in the article. Modern tendencies in self-organization and development of a crowd by means of Internet are analyzed. The specification of the hotheaded and instantaneous crowd and the peculiarities of the smart and reasonable crowd are given.
crowd description, its fundamental mechanisms, various types of a crowd, occasional crowd, conventional crowd, expressive crowd, functional crowd, flash mob and smart mob crowd, self-organizing by means of Internet
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