On Candy’s “Collaboration: Realizing the Transformative Potential of Technologies”

  1. century

simple sets of communication devices

beacons

baloons

mirrors

morse codes

smoke signals

telegrams

first attempts at really long distance communications

later

major shift in communication

after

before

multi nodal communication

bipolar communication

multi modal communication

like

conferencing

chat rooms

...

aim of the article

existing networked communities

emerging networked communities

describing differences between real and virtual communities

in many ways it is equivalent

seeking companionship

exchanging information

sharing resources

learning

diffrences

people can disseminate ideas in larger numbers

sponsors of networked communities

forge linkages in great distance

sponsored communities

education

journalists

authors

enhanced communication between two users