Chapter 2 wrap-up
You have now finished Chapter 2.
This chapter has explored collaboration and the increasingly collaborative ways in which we share meaning. It has laid some important groundwork for the chapters ahead.
In Chapter 3, we’ll look at audiences, who are, of course, collaborators in communicational processes. And when we come to Chapter 8, this book’s final chapter, we’ll return to some of the ideas explored here about the participatory and interactive nature of communication.
Things to think about…
This chapter has mentioned group projects, OER, Wikipedia, fact-checking, and Twitter. Can you think of other examples of collaborative knowledge-building or collective intelligence?
These days, we can collaborate with others very quickly. What does a culture of speed do to collaboration? Can you think of positive and negative ways in which speed impacts our ability to collaborate?
Conduct a Google image search using the word “collaboration”. What sort of results do you get? Do you find that collaboration is being depicted in a positive or negative light? What other connotations are present? How does this align with your own understanding – and experiences – of collaboration?
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