The question of whether intelligence can be

attributed to groups or not has been raised in many scientific

disciplines. In the field of computer-supported collaborative

learning, this question has been examined to understand how

computer-mediated environments can augment human

cognition and learning on a group level. The era of social

computing which represents the emergence of Web 2.0

collaborative technologies and social media has stimulated a

wide discussion about collective intelligence and the global

brain. This paper reviews the theory of distributed cognition

in the light of these concepts in an attempt to analyze and

understand the emergence process of intelligence that takes

place in the context of computer-mediated collaborative and

social media environments. It concludes by showing that the

cognitive organization, which occurs within social interactions

serves as a catalyst for intelligence to emerge on a group level.

Also a process model has been developed to show the process

of collaborative knowledge construction in Wikipedia that

characterizes such cognitive organization.