ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the affordances web technologies offer for sharing the processes of scholarly production on an unprecedented scale. The Web has been writeable from its earliest days, thanks to the basic database functions of Create, Read, Update, and Delete, although early on the ability to do so required some technical knowledge. What is commonly called “Web 2.0” was not so much a shift in technology but the application of existing technologies to make it very easy for people to write, which is to say publish, to the Web, with the result that vast numbers of people began to participate in knowledge creation online, whether in the form of wikis, blogs, or social media.
