Distributed Collective Practices

"The term Distributed Collective Practices (DCP) is used to signify collective activity distributed across geographical and conceptual distances, time, collective resources, and heterogeneous perspectives or experiences. DCP relies on information infrastructures and technologies such as collaboratories, organizational memory, digital libraries, multi-agent systems, community networks, scientific data repositories, chat rooms, multi-player games, distance education environments, and so on." - [1]

In other words best practices relevant to social software and online community to the degree that is sensible, which trolls say is "not very".

"Over a period of about four years, a group of some fifty US and French researchers have been working together in this area. The thrust of this interdisciplinary effort has been to better understand how people establish and sustain over time a capacity for learning and doing things together in the open space of Internet? This has also been a central question for CSCW research but much of the research in this tradition has been strongly influenced by the categories and analytical frameworks used for studying bounded social groups, those that form because they share a set of physical, cultural, social, economic or other conditions. For DCP research, it's not enough to study collective practices in order to understand how they work; an event space is fashioned, transformed and thus made into an arena where collective action is possible. How is this infrastructural work done? What are the dynamics at work in making a collective?"