Bill Wasik
Bill Wasik is the editorial director of The New York Times Magazine, and self-proclaimed originator of the flash mob.
Biography
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Wasik graduated from
Flash mob inventor
"For years he was 'Bill'—no last name—who cryptically told reporters he worked 'in the culture industry,'” wrote Emily Boutilier in the Winter 2015 edition of the Amherst alumni magazine.
Wasik said in 2010 that he was surprised by the violence of some of the gatherings. He said the mobs started as a kind of playful social experiment meant to encourage spontaneity and big gatherings to temporarily take over commercial and public areas simply to show that they could.
“It’s terrible that these Philly mobs have turned violent,” he said.[4]
Works
Wasik is the author of 2 books, his first being And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture (Viking, 2009) and, with Monica Murphy, Rabid (Viking), which was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. His second book is Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus, with Monica Murphy as co-writer (Viking, 2012).
He is also the editor, with Roger D. Hodge, of Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine (New Press, 2008)
References
- ^ a b c Mob Mentality, Emily Boutilier, Amherst Magazine, Winter 2015
- OCLC 4532730. Retrieved 2007-02-02.
- OCLC 1767509. Archived from the originalon 13 July 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-14.
- ^ "Mobs Are Born as Word Grows by Text Message", New York Times
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