A
Naturalistic Inquiry into the Collaboratory:
In Search Of Understanding
For Prospective Participants
Copyright ã joanne twining, 1999
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Full
Dissertation
(1.07MB 278 pages)
http://www.intertwining.org/dissertation/dissertation.pdf
Phase
One
Toward an Objective Reality of the Collaboratory
(244 KB,112 pages)
Includes Frontmatter, Chapters One-Five,
and Phase One Conclusion http://www.intertwining.org/dissertation/Phase1.pdf
In which the collaboratory's foundation documents are explored and used as
a basis for taxono-bibliometric analysis and qualitative content analysis of
the collaboratory literature (n=86). The assumptions of relative equality of
contribution to collaboratory research by the hard and soft sciences, and the inherent
interdisciplinarity of the collaboratory environment are proved as practiced principles
reflected in the published literature. A matrix of criteria for inclusion as a
collaboratory is developed; and an emergent theory of the collaboratory as an ungendered,
information environment is put forth.
Phase Two
Toward a Subjective Reality of the
Collaboratory
(704 KB, 70 pages)
Includes Chapters Six-Eight and Conclusion
http://www.intertwining.org/dissertation/Phase2.pdf
In which the criteria for inclusion as a collaboratory are
discussed, and four collaboratory site studies are developed during prolonged immersion in
the online environment. The information environment and types of data generated by studied
sites are compared and analysed. Access to and manipulation of remote instrumentation is
the determining criteria for inclusion as a collaboratory. Communication modes and
data types generated by each collaboratory are instrumentally-determined.
Post-implementation sociocultural research needs are discussed.
Phase Two Consent Form
to conduct envoronmental research in collaboratory
http://www.intertwining.org/dissertation/consent/p2consen.htm
(placed 4/99)
Phase Three
Toward an Intersubjective Reality of the Collaboratory
(175 KB, 95 Pages)
Includes Chapter Nine, Conclusion of the Study, Endmatter
http://www.intertwining.org/dissertation/Phase3.pdf
In which an electronic "Delphi Among Collaboratory
Pioneers" is conducted to determine the "rules of the road" for the
Collaboratory and identify skills Collaboratory Pioneers value in prospective
participants. Size is explored as a factor in preference for formal vs. informal
communication modes, and structured vs. unstructured experiment modes. The
objective, subjective, and intersubjective realities of the collaboratory are intertwined,
and the collaboratory is found to be a virtual information environment where old science
is done in new ways, but from which new science has yet emerged.
Phase Three Consent Form
to participate in Delphi Among Collaboratory Pioneers
http://www.intertwining.org/dissertation/consent/p3consen.htm
(Placed 4/99)
Preliminary Documents:
Dissertation
Proposal (Submitted 10/98)
http://www.intertwining.org/proposal.pdf (6MB, 30 pages)
Dissertation Prospectus (Approved
12/98) http://www.intertwining.org/dissertation/prospectus.pdf
(2MB, 10 pages) Human Subject Review (Approved
12/98)
http://www.intertwining.org/hsrc.pdf (1MB, 12 pages) |
