Groups Chats and Knowledge Collection




One under-discussed aspect when it comes to online knowledge collection is group chats. Group chat can spring up among friends, family, jobs and classes, or in different online communication tools like Discord or Facebook.

This is online curation in its purest form. People bring different evidence and artifacts to the chat and generate conversations based off it. People can choose whether to save them for their own individual use or let them slide into the void of an endless group chat. People bring their own expertise to these chats and will ask questions to the group chat and "crowdsource" information. 

Never thought I would analyze a group chat for class. 

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  1. J.AllenJr.June 11, 2023 at 4:51 PM

    Hi Brett,

    I never thought of group chats this way either, however this makes complete sense! I have several group chats and I feel that in each group chat there is a level of collective knowledge that is being shared and created. People do bring their own experiences, expertise and resources! There have been some group chats I go back and reference because of the information that was shared may have been useful in the future! I might be in group chat overload though, especially with family, friends, organizations, conferences, etc.

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