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Another important distinction is the borders around which a mass cooperation can be defined. Due to the extremely general characteristics and lack of need for fine grain negotiation and consensus when cooperating, the entire Internet, a city and even the global economy may be regarded as a mass cooperation. Thus a mass collaboration is more refined and complex in its process and production on the level of collective engagement. |
Another important distinction is the borders around which a mass cooperation can be defined. Due to the extremely general characteristics and lack of need for fine grain negotiation and consensus when cooperating, the entire Internet, a city and even the global economy may be regarded as a mass cooperation. Thus a mass collaboration is more refined and complex in its process and production on the level of collective engagement. |
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⚫ | Although an online discussion is certainly collaborative, mass collaboration differs from a large forum/bulletin board, email list, chat session or group discussion in that the discussion's structure of separate, individual posts generated through [[turn-taking]] communication means the textual content does not take the form of a single, coherent body. Of course the conceptual domain of the overall discussion exists as a single unified body, however the textual contributors can be linked back to the understandings and interpretations of a single author. Though the author's understandings and interpretations are most certainly a negotiation of all that they have in the discussion, the fact that there was only one author of a given entry reduces the entry's [[collaborative complexity]] to the discursive/interpretive as opposed to constructive/‘negotiative’ levels. |
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⚫ | Although an online discussion is certainly collaborative, |
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==The role of discussion in mass collaboration== |
==The role of discussion in mass collaboration== |