Psychodrama and Web-based Interactions

[Ramu Iyer]

John Kao, author of a recently published book titled "Innovation Nation",
wrote in a recent issue of KM World, July/Aug 2008:
"There is no steward for the innovation agenda. Basically we need to water
the roots. And then we need to figure out who's going to be responsible, and
we need to give them the aegis to be able to figure out a plan and to start
building the necessary actions to implement that plan."

I'd like to obtain references to papers and/or books that describe how
psychodrama is being applied to enhance creativity and spontaneity in
Web-based interactions (or electronic social networks). For the past two
decades, I have been mostly with teams in software development environments.
I have noticed that increasingly face-to-face interactions are being
superceded by electronic interactions, which at an atomic level is a "blog"
of sentences and emoticons (aka email threads). While emoticons are humorous
with a limited set of icons, they are not as rich as the repertoire of human
emotions.

Although I am stating a known fact, I wish to respect the individual choices
of various individuals in both colocated and geographically-dispersed
settings who wish to leverage the power of technology during team
coordination and collaboration.

It might turn out to be a great opportunity to integrate psychodrama in
electronic social networks.

Thanks for any feedback.

Ramu
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