Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:08:33 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: when minds interact



	Collective action and collaboration seem to be different. 
Collective action seems to involve acting in concert with others on a 
pre-agreed upon goal. Collaboration is a process where by participants 
work together to create something new. The difference may be subtle, and 
collective action may involve collaborative processes, but the 
difference is worth observing, I think.
	What I am interested in is internet tools or processes that 
suport and facilitate collaboration. These tools would be useful for 
groups like the one you refer to, as well as to many others. There's a 
good book on the subject by Michael Schrage, though it deals mainly with 
business organization.

George 

On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, mal avita wrote:

> Although this is not exclusively an internet project, and the 
> collaborative aspects of the project did not originate on the Web, this 
> Website might be of some interest to you. It is a collective action 
> originating in Philadelphia. The importance of this project lies in the 
> ability of this group to challenge the status quo through direct 
> interaction with the culture industry, unlike many projects confined to 
> the strictures of theory alone. 
> 
> http://geocities.com/Paris/Arc/6714
> 
> 
> >	The real promise of the internet lies in its potential to be a 
> >collaborative medium. We need new kinds of works and facilities that 
> >promote--and arise out of--the joint engagement of participants, in 
> which 
> >all are creators...
> >
> >"We believe that communicators have to do something nontrivial with the
> >information they send and receive. And ... to interact with the 
> richness of
> >living information - not merely in the passive way that we have become
> >accustomed to using books and libraries, but as active participants in 
> an
> >ongoing process, bringing something to it through our interaction with 
> it,
> >and not simply receiving by our connection to it ... We want to 
> emphasize
> >something beyond its one-way transfer: the increasing significance of 
> the
> >jointly constructive, the mutually reinforcing aspect of communication 
> - the
> >part that transcends 'now we both know a fact that only one of us knew
> >before.' When minds interact, new ideas emerge."
> >
> >-J.C.R. Licklider
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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