Luo, Airong Informal Communication in Collaboratories., 2006 . In 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Austin (US), 3-8 November 2006. [Conference paper]
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This study examines how collaboratories affect informal scientific communication. Collaboratories are virtual organizations, where various information technologies are adopted to support distributed scientific work. In this paper, a framework to understand factors affecting informal communication are presented and how these factors play out in collaboratories are discussed. The results of data analysis suggest that collaboratories bring about new opportunities, but there are also barriers to informal communication in collaboratories. Peripheral scientists encounter more barriers than their partners in US and Europe. The paper concludes with a discussion of areas for future research and implications of this study.
Item type: | Conference paper |
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Keywords: | collaboratories ; virtual organizations ; communication ; scientists |
Subjects: | G. Industry, profession and education. > GD. Organizations. |
Depositing user: | Norm Medeiros |
Date deposited: | 15 Dec 2006 |
Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:05 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/8621 |
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