Since I won't be at C&W this year, I was glad to get a chance to view Dan Anderson's new media video presentation for the conference (thanks, Dan!). As Dan argues, and I think rightly so, the "lone author is better able to produce a new media instructional resource" than the "outsource production" model of new media instructional text production.

But I don't think it's that the "power of autonomy and individual authorship undermine[s] collaborative paradigms," but rather that the power of collaboration is undermined by attachment to individual authorship/ownership. Our society's acculturation to IP as something to be owned often acts as a set of blinders, one which overly privileges multi-individual projects without much collboration. To embrace collaboration is to understand that outsource production model Dan describes is not a production "team"; rather, it's more like a manufacturing process which outsources production of different components to other companies and then assembles them together. Not a creative process at all. Ugh!

But seriously, this is too neat a process, not messy enough. You can engineer a car, but engineering a creative text about producting creative new media works?