Digital collaboration: forme sociali in evoluzione

Digital Collaboration, in the context of the pressing presence of a wide range of digital technologies in our everyday life, is the topic of Chapter 3 of the book Orizzonti di conoscenza. Strumenti digitali, metodi e prospettive per luomo del terzo millennio (Horizons of knowledge. Digital tools, methods and perspectives for the man of the Third Millennium) authored by Fortunato Sorrentino and Maria Chiara Pettenati and edited by Firenze University Press, 2014. Holding to the focus of the book knowledge in its new forms, its creation and sharing in the contemporary world this mode of collaboration, adopted more and more by the modern knowledge worker is discussed across its various uses and observed from multiple points of view. Digital collaboration tools receive a special attention, an innovative generation of software applications called shared virtual workspaces, as well as a discussion of the skills and attitudes required to effectively make use of such devices.