Author Bruce Sterling discusses how mobile digital connectivity and the boom in cell phones changed the face of urban poverty in the twenty-first century. In my opinion, the many academic researchers who still focus on the inequalities of traditional broadcast media systems have completely missed the most significant – and most disruptive, says Sterling – innovation in communication. Mobile technology has already brought about social change, connecting the poor, the illiterate, and the disenfranchised worldwide to the global conversation. Welcome to real social change.
