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Using social networks for multicultural creative collaboration

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ICIC '12: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Intercultural Collaboration

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2160881.2160889

Published: 21 March 2012 Publication History

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Social networks can facilitate creative dialogue between participants whose geographical, cultural and social circumstances normally does not allow for such exchanges. In this paper, we present a case study of a collaborative process in which 19 participants from around the world created the multimedia, multi-language poem, "Our Digital Tapestry", on the Facebook social network. We identify and discuss the affordances of this platform with respect to support for play, control, diversity, inclusion of hypertext and multimedia, communication and relationship exploration. We also identify several restrictions of the medium that affected the project.

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ICIC '12: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Intercultural Collaboration

March 2012

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DOI:10.1145/2160881

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Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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Indian Institute of Science, India
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University of California Irvine, USA
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International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland

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