Dimitrina Dimitrova

Dimitrina DimitrovaDimitrina Dimitrova is a lecturer at York University, Toronto, and the founding project director of the NAVEL study at the University of Toronto’s NetLab Network. She has extensive experience in studying networked work and has published on networked organizations and networked work, scholarly networks, communities of practice, and telework.

Publications

The NetLab Network
The NetLab Network
Dimitrina Dimitrova, Barry Wellman. © 2019. 14 pages.
The authors discuss the NetLab Network – an interdisciplinary network studying the intersection of social networks, communication networks, and computer networks. It has...
The NetLab Network
The NetLab Network
Dimitrina Dimitrova, Barry Wellman. © 2018. 12 pages.
We discuss the NetLab Network – an interdisciplinary network studying the intersection of social networks, communication networks, and computer networks. It has developed since...
Managing Collaborative Research Networks: The Dual Life of a Virtual Community of Practice
Managing Collaborative Research Networks: The Dual Life of a Virtual Community of Practice
Dimitrina Dimitrova, Emmanuel Koku. © 2012. 23 pages.
This analysis is a test case for the broader issue of how distributed communities function. It shows that even highly distributed CoPs may have a dual life: they exist both...
Managing Collaborative Research Networks: The Dual Life of a Virtual Community of Practice
Managing Collaborative Research Networks: The Dual Life of a Virtual Community of Practice
Dimitrina Dimitrova, Emmanuel Koku. © 2010. 22 pages.
This paper explores how management practices shape the way dispersed communities of practice (CoPs) function. The analysis is a case study of a dispersed community engaged in...
Research Communities in Context: Trust, Independence, and Technology in Professional Communities
Research Communities in Context: Trust, Independence, and Technology in Professional Communities
Dimitrina Dimitrova, Emmanuel Koku. © 2009. 26 pages.
This chapter examines a community of professionals, created by a government agency and charged with conducting country-wide, cross-disciplinary, and cross-sectoral research and...