Abstract

SILVA, Bento Duarte  and  SOUZA, Karine Pinheiro. Distance co-research in the era of cyberculture: report of an experience about co-entrepreneurship. Revista da FAEEBA: Educação e Contemporaneidade [online]. 2015, vol.24, n.44, pp.55-68. ISSN 0104-7043.  https://doi.org/10.2015/jul.dez.v24n44.005.

In the context of an action research project concerning ICT and Entrepreneurship, this paper presents validation of concepts regarding network entrepreneurship (Coentrepreneurship). This process took place in the reflection phase, which, because the participants involved were in distant locales (England, Portugal, and Brazil), could only be achieved using ubiquitous communication technologies. As such, this article relates this experience, in an attempt to determine the extent to which the ubiquitous communication technologies enable and support the distance co-research process. Based on the theory of Distance Education in the era of Cyberculture and the construction of knowledge via online educational networks, the research methodology adopted a strategy involving an online focus group and co-research (OKADA, 2014). Participants formed an investigative community, using communication technologies that were both asynchronous (a forum of 13 participants) and synchronous (a web conference with 10 participants) to consolidate the co-entrepreneurship categories. The resulting data was processed using sociometric methods and content analysis. Findings show that ubiquitous communication technologies meet the desired goal; in spite of distance, and the fact that participants were in different locales, it was possible to create knowledge.

Keywords : Distance Research; Online Educational Networks; Ubiquitous Communication Technologies; Co-Research; Co-Entrepreneurship.

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