Collective

The collective, defined by Anderson and Dron (2007) as, "The largest form of social granularity in which members participate for individual benefit, but their activities are harvested to generate the 'wisdom of the crowds'

Anderson, T., & Dron, J. (2007). Groups, networks, and collectives in social software for e-learning, 2007 European Conferences on E-Learning. Copenhagen, Denmark.