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Case Study: A Collaborative of Content Designers and Developers
Beth Brunk-Chavez (The University of Texas at El Paso, USA) and Sunay Palsole (The University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
Copyright: © 2010
|Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-994-6.ch006
Abstract
This chapter features a case study of a collaborative project among a team of writers and a team of multimedia designers and examines their intersections. The chapter’s central question is: What does it take to enable collective collaboration in a virtual writing environment? The chapter is based in part on a study that found that building and strengthening social presence is integral to effective collaboration. The spoken and unspoken social contracts of working toward a common goal in a respectful environment are important. It also found that the technologies must be adoptable, adaptable, and they must enable anywhere/anytime collaboration. Therefore, collaboration using technologies is a complex process involving social presence, availability, and adaption/adoption of technologies with the changing needs of the collaborative team.