A village to find a phone

This story starts out with Ivanna losing her phone in a NYC cab. After realizing that it was a young girl who stole it and refused to return it, Ivanna turned to Evan to help her out. Evan created a website about the stolen/lost phone and this website ended up going national. One important element of the story is the fact that the first idea that Evan and Ivanna had was to go to the internet for help.
Another element of this story that I found interesting was that the young girl who ended up with the stolen/lost phone was using it to send emails of photos of herself to people. With new technology, it's not difficult for people to find out many different things about someone if they look in the right places. The young girl was a member of Myspace which made it easy to figure out who she was and where she was from.
After a few weeks of this issue, police began to get involved. This is something that had spread very quickly and involved many other people. The police initially involved were military police; the young girl's brother. The military police officer threatened Evan to take the website down. After these threats, local police were involved. I think that this is another important part of the story because it shows that noone is immune or above technology. Evan was in it to satisfy justice. It had nothing to do with the money.
One other interesting element was that Evan was also relying on traditional media. And the only way that he could rely on traditional media was to have his website's followers keep checking the site to keep it going. If Evan didnt have his followers, he wouldnt be able to keep going with the investigation.
The last important element is that what this story shows. This story is an "illustration of the kinds of changes- some good and some bad, most too complex to label- that are affecting the ways groups assemble and cooperate. These changes are profound because they are amplifying or extending our essential social skills and our charachteristic social failings as well". I think this is very intersting and very true. Media is always changing and over the last few years, media has completely formed a new generation. This story has many underlying messages but the main message is how media has changed the ways that groups form and function.