Docummunity: is the process of documentary video editing improved by online collaboration?

Media academics have espoused the virtues of the internet as a locus for collaboration since social media platforms exploded into mainstream society. To test the veracity of this claim an online collaborative video editor was created for participants to edit documentary footage. This task was chosen because of its multifaceted and complicated processes, requiring high levels of interpersonal engagement. The conclusion was that the internet does not facilitate deep collaboration due to superficial feedback loops, participant's indeterminate role delineation and increased task complexity. Calling the online process 'collaboration' was an optimistic overstatement of something that was never more than aggregation.