Collaborating

Abstract

AbstractCollaborating presents itself once you can search, create, and network information online. Early initiatives online sought to enable collaboration in responding to national emergencies, allowing the right experts to be assembled from anywhere to address the problems. Since the early days of computer-mediated communication, collaboration has been an increasingly prominent application of online networks. There are major examples of managing online networks of collaboration to create information, films, experiments, and many jointly authored texts, such as Wikipedia. Networked individuals can be distributed locally and globally but still collaborate and combine in ways that create collective intelligence to serve many civic-minded roles of the Fifth Estate, such as in crowdsourcing, crowdsolving, and the management of collaborative networks to create collective and open-source intelligence. More routinely, remote work is changing the workplace as more individuals work collaboratively from anywhere at any time rather than go into an office on a fixed schedule.