Knowledge Communities
Members of knowledge communities is "someone who knows some things but has to rely on others to access additional information" (p. 132).
According to Jenkins (2006), "Knowledge communities form around mutual intellectual interests" (p. 20). Knowledge communities are these opposite of expert-driven groups and have “voluntary, temporary, and tactical affiliations” (p. 57). They are bottom-up, collaborative, and evaluate information collectively (p. 58).
According to Jenkins (2006), "For Levy, the power to participate within knowledge communities exists alongside the power that the nation-states exerts over its citizens and that corporations within commodity capitalism exert over its workers and consumers" (p. 256).
References:
Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide. New York: New York University Press.