Communication and Digital Content in Research Network Collaboratories

Abstract

In this paper, we explore Collaboratories as a space of communication for research networks between institutions whose focus is on research, development and technological innovation (PD&I). Collaboratories are used to promote communication, increase learning, encourage collaborative construction of knowledge and share information, knowledge and technologies. We also conduct a discussion about communication as a guiding process of the relationships between the participants of the research networks in the Collaboratories. Based on a model of digital content organization, which is part of a transmedia perspective, we also identify the media and the content that can be exchanged.