Empowering Social Knowledge with Information Technology ies now focus on the communication structure effects in organizations and communities as a result of information technology use (Pickering & King, 1995; Nardi, Whittaker, & Schwarz, 2000; Katz, 2008). This is because information technology is replacing traditional resources for developing an actor's social network (Nardi et al., 2000). While most social network studies have assumed ties being conducted face-to-face, such studies formally emphasize on one strand of tie - often work relations, therefore neglecting the multiplex character of personal networks, which tend precisely to intersect several social relations (Licoppe & Smoreda, 2005). Further- more, although the general argument from these studies remains that an individual's social ties are developed, facilitated and maintained through information technology, very few actually report on the interactions between information technol- ogy use and individual performance. Individuals to the prospective growth of an upgraded Internet that will support enhanced information search, filtering and retrieval services, virtual laboratory environments, and remote shared access to large information technology based facilities. These tools are almost certain to alter profoundly the way that normal knowledge bases are organized during the 21 century. But, if the opportunities of collaboration and sharing of both physical and data resources on a global scale are in the process of being greatly expanded, there also are counter- tendencies that may undermine long-established traditions of co-operation and lessen the domain of open knowledge endeavor. We need not assume that technological thought is a single monolithic whole or that it can be uniquely characterized in any single formula. Yet it does have characteristics that differentiate it from science. In this regard, it is interesting to note that in the last century, technology was