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Review Article: Exploring the new frontiers of collaborative community

The past few years have witnessed a creative ferment among what has been heretofore referred to as amateur content producers, empowered by increasingly accessible and affordable information and communication technologies. Social networking and bookmarking applications, usergenerated content distribution portals and virtual worlds are providing spaces and tools for these kinds of activities, which are surging in their use by millions more people every month. This portends a paradigm shift from traditional models of corporate-controlled production and distribution to more democratic, non-hierarchical, collaborative structures. Developments along this new frontier are beginning to be explored by researchers from a spectrum of theoretical perspectives and methods. Such studies are created in an attempt to provide a framework for understanding the impact of these rapid, dynamic technology-led advances; what kind of individual identities, communities and cultures are being developed in these spaces, and what do they suggest for the future not only of creativity, but in our global information society, our civilization itself? Three recent books have delved into these issues. new media & society