moving toward the collaborative

After our discussion in class yesterday, I've been thinking more about the whole notion of collaborative qualitative research. So very much of the academia is structured to reward individual work, even though many institutions are moving toward a call for and support of interdisciplinary research teams. Nonetheless, historically, there has been a strong tendency to promote the notion of the lone scholar, working away on their *individual* ideas. With the emergence of new technologies, to some extent, there is an opportunity for us to rethink how collaboration can 1) be supported and 2) be promoted. From ATLAS/NVivo/MAXQDA to collaborative video conferencing (Skype/Google Hangout), there are new opportunities to think as a collective and generate something we could not generate alone. The notion of distributed cognition is something that can also pervade how we pursue research.