The
Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative (DKRC) is a
consortium of individual researchers and groups dedicated
to the study of how knowledge is produced, shared, negotiated,
and co-constructed within distributed communities, and the
ways in which technologies affect these exchanges. We assume
that to understand distributed knowledge processes, we require
the perspectives and methodologies of multiple disciplines.
Our members and approaches draw from and contribute to the
sociology of scientific knowledge, computer mediated communication
studies, social network analysis, information science, management,
education, and writing studies. We also assume that several
knowledge processes can be distributed, including our own.
Several of the consortium projects are distributed across
disciplines, time, institutions, and geography.
Mission
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