ABSTRACT
Chapter 14, “Distributed Collaboration,” considers the vital role of collaboration in creative production across networked communication. Its focus is on how our current ability to communicate with great ease has redefined individual and collective productivity. Authorship is discussed in relation to individuals as well as collectives in order to evaluate how creative processes are being redefined with the emerging possibilities to track the development of ideas, forms and activities. The chapter goes over a few examples of networked collaborative production, which demonstrate that collaboration plays a crucial role in the realization of major works that could never be achieved by a single artist or designer. The key issue to consider in this case is to know when and how to collaborate with others, and how to allocate fair credit to everyone who is part of a collaboration.
