The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
Writing Community Change: Designing Technologies for Citizen Action
Writing Community Change: Designing Technologies for Citizen Action
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Emerging digital discursive spaces, such as wikis, offer newopportunities for knowledge communication. However, participantsjoin such spaces through the lenses of their established discursivepractices. These practices, however, interact with the code –the technological design – of these spaces, which canreproduce, question, or undermine them, and present alternativeopportunities and visions for knowledge communication.Participants, therefore, ultimately face questions about the waysin which tensions between established (genred) practices andalternative practices enabled by code are to be negotiated. Drawingon theories of rhetoric and technology, this article offers anintegrated theoretical framework that allows developers of onlinecommunities to examine the established rhetorical practices ofparticipants and the ways in which the code of the discursive spacemay question or facilitate these practices. The paper thenillustrates how this framework may be applied to facilitatingacademic knowledge communication in a wiki space and concludes withimplications for decision-making in shaping digital discursivespaces for knowledge communication.