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Collaboration and Collective Intelligence
April 27, 2007
Mizuko Ito research scientist, USC Annenberg Center for Communication
Cory Ondrejka chief technology officer, Linden Lab
Trebor Scholz professor, media studies, SUNY Buffalo
Thomas W. Malone moderator

An MIT Communications Forum panel discusses how buzz phrases like "collective intelligence" and "the wisdom of crowds" have become central in recent discussions of networked culture, and what they actually mean.

What do we know about the new forms of collaboration that are emerging as people work together across geographic distances online? Are we working, learning, socializing, creating, consuming, and playing in new ways as a result of the emergence of our participation in online communities? What have we learned over the past decade that may help us to design more powerful communities in the real world? What lessons can we carry from our "Second Lives" into our first?

Culture & Identity | Media & Technology
Computing | Community Building | Web Media | Internet | Lifestyle
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Image of Second Life: The Official Guide
Author: Jim Rossignol, Celebrity Trollop, Aleks Krotoski, Benjamin Batstone-Cunningham, Paul Cézanne, Jeannette Cézanne, Sara Van Gorden, Richard Platel, Cory Ondrejka, Michael Rymaszewski, Wagner James Au
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Binding: Paperback, 416 pages
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