Heaton, Lorna
Professor
Department of Communication
University of Montreal
Canada
Biography
Heaton, Lorna is an Associate Professor Contact : T elephone 514-343-6111 # 29533 Pav. PAVILION MARIE-VICTORIN \ bur. B412 at University of Montreal, Canada.
Research Interest
My research interests revolve around collaboration, especially the role of the technologies that organize and channel it. I explore the transformations brought about by the use of information and communication technologies in groups and organizations. I prefer to work in projects that connect researchers from several disciplines. For example, I am currently working with researchers from the CIRST (Interuniversity Research Center for Science and Technology) and the Faculty of Planning. I have a particular interest in situations of heterogeneous collaboration in which participants are brought to share different expertise and points of view. Sociotechnical innovation is at the heart of my questioning. currently,
Publications
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HEATON, L., MILLERAND, F., CRESPEL, E. and PROULX, S. (2011). The updating of the amateur contribution to botany: the online collective Tela Botanica . Land and works 21.
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PROULX, S., HEATON, L., KWOK CHOON, M.-J. and MILLETTE, M. (2011). Paradoxical empowerment of produsers in the context of informational capitalism . New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 17 (1) 9-29.
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HEATON, L. and PROULX, S. (2011). The local construction of a transnational data base in botany: a highlight of the invisible work of "little hands" . Review of the Anthropology of Knowledge 5 (3).
