Online Interaction and “Real Information Flow”: Contrasts Between Talking About Interdisciplinarity and Achieving Interdisciplinary Collaboration

In this article we study how members of an interdisciplinary research team use an online forum for communicating about their research project. We use the concepts of “community of practice” and “connectivity” to consider the online interaction within a wider question of how people from different aca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Janet Smithson, Catherine Hennessy, Robin Means
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2012-11-01
Series:Journal of Research Practice
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Online Access:http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/322/260