A prolific researcher working at the University of Ulster in Norther Irland is Ned Rossiter. Ned's research is on the power relationships in networks and the new institutional forms of networks. His work is an interesting read (if you are into that) but pity that he isn't a little more technically savvy.

Organised Networks: Transdisciplinarity and New Institutional Forms

The social-technical dynamics of ICT-based networks constitute organisation in ways substantively different from networked organisations (unions, state, firms, universities). My interest in this paper is to say a few things about the process of scalar transformation and transdisciplinarity as they relate to the invention of new institutional forms. Having established these background conditions, processes and practices, I will then move on to the topic of autonomous education.