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Original Articles

La naturaleza del discurso en la escritura colaborativa online: intersubjetividad y elaboración del significado

The nature of discourse in on-line collaborative writing: Intersubjectivity and meaning-making

Pages 219-233 | Published online: 23 Jan 2014
 

Resumen

Desde la irrupción de las Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación (TIC), el uso de tareas de escritura colaborativa mediante comunicación asíncrona escrita se ha incrementado en todos los niveles educativos, y especialmente en la educación superior. Las condiciones operacionales de este tipo de colaboración sugieren la existencia de formas de construcción conjunta de significados y de características discursivas específicas.

Este artículo presenta un estudio sobre la colaboración entre estudiantes universitarios para elaborar conjuntamente un texto comunicándose por escrito y asincrónicamente. Se estudian cuatro casos de escritura colaborativa en pequeño grupo durante seis semanas. El análisis se focaliza en la naturaleza del discurso, en la construcción de significados compartidos, y en el avance de la intersubjetividad entre los participantes. Los resultados permiten identificar fases de intersubjetividad distintas en las que la construcción de significados funciona de manera diferenciada, y en las que el discurso toma formas específicas.

Abstract

Since the irruption of Information and Communication Technologies, the use of on-line collaborative writing has increased substantially at all educational levels, and especially in higher education. The specific operational conditions of this kind of collaboration suggest the existence of specific forms of meaning-making and specific features in discourse that participants use in collaboration.

This paper presents a study of collaboration amongst university students working on a collaborative text by means of computer-supported written asynchronous communication. Four cases are studied in which small groups of students write collaboratively a text during six weeks. Analysis focuses on the nature of discourse, meaning-making, and development of intersubjectivity. Results permit to identify different phases of intersubjectivity in which meaning-making works in different ways and discourse takes specific forms.

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