Both events have one thing in common with a ruckus early this month at Lamar High School: word of the events spread to teens and young adults through social media. Fifteen hundred people showed up at her Hamburg home, fires erupted, 11 people were detained, and a police officer was injured. "The issue of convening people through social media in unanticipated places and ways is something that I think is a new phenomenon," said Kenneth S. Williams, executive director of the Entertainment Technology Center at the University of Southern California. When you start seeing that phenomenon literally in your backyard, you realize the opportunity that these networks create for things as insignificant as a wild teenage party or as politically significant as the Arab Spring. Williams said that while young people are more at ease participating in viral activities, he expects them to become increasingly common for a wider demographic, which may present problems for cities, police departments and anyone with the task of maintaining order. Houston Police Department spokeswoman Jodi Silva said that investigators monitor social media sites but declined to provide more detail. At Lamar, principal James McSwain was still fielding phone calls from concerned parents several weeks after the April 5 incident, which began when students spilled into the hallways throwing paper balls and screaming According to statistics from Yahoo!, more searches for "Project X" originated in Houston than any other city in the country during a recent 30-day period (Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., were next).
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