Abstract
Changes in Web infrastructure have allowed ITexts to become a vehicle for transdisciplinary Web-scale collaboration so that large-scale teams can create new knowledge despite differences in team members' disciplinary training, geographic location, and levels of expertise. In this article, the authors define Web-scale collaboration and illustrate the need for transdisciplinary approaches to problem solving. Then they introduce heuristics for creating and evaluating such transdisciplinary, collaborative Web-scale ITexts, drawing on examples generated at a workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation that was held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in April 2010.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 322-337 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Journal of Business and Technical Communication |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2011 |
Keywords
- ITexts
- collaboration
- emerging digital genres
- transdisciplinarity
- usability
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Business and International Management
- Communication
- Business, Management and Accounting (all)