Internet, innovation, and open source: Actors in the network

Tuomi, Ilkka

doi:10.5210/fm.v6i1.824

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“…Research on open source software communities has traditionally focused on individuals working as a community, mostly independent of corporate involvement. These community‐centric studies examine how open source software communities reveal subtleties of sociotechnical change (Tuomi, ), including the role of diversity (Daniel, Agarwal, & Stewart, ), the materiality of open source software (Howison & Crowston, ), the emergence of community governance (Di Tullio & Staples, ; O'Mahony & Ferraro, and Shah, ) and the creation of open knowledge (Hemetsberger & Reinhardt, ). Open source developers carry internal motivations rooted in communal altruism, as well as external motivations concentrated on expected returns for participating (Hars & Ou, ; Kendall et al, ).…”

Section: Open Source Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Third Design Space: A postcolonial perspective on corporate engagement with open source software communities

Kendall

Mathiassen

2019

Information Systems Journal

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Corporations increasingly engage with open source software communities in the co‐creation of software. This collaboration between corporate professionals and open source software community members is strikingly different from the early days of software development where for‐profit firms attempted to dominate and control the industry while attempting to throttle the success of independent developers offering an alternative, open source option. While many metaphors like trading zones, common pool resources and ecosystems have helped understand the phenomenon, the metaphors do not portray what the industry was like before and after the transition. We adopt a postcolonial metaphor as an analytical lens to examine such collaboration based on qualitative data gathered over three years from executives, managers and developers within corporations that engage in open source software development. Drawing on these insights, we then theorize a “Third Design Space,” based on the concept of the third space proposed by Bhabha. This metaphor encourages the cultivation of a new design environment, creation of new design associations and circulation of shared design resources. Together these practices and behaviours make it possible to nurture innovative methods and new rituals for designing software with results and methods that represent a distinct departure from the competitive and proprietary past, even creating innovative artefacts that could not have been created without the Third Design Space.

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Section: Open Source Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Third Design Space: A postcolonial perspective on corporate engagement with open source software communities

Kendall

Mathiassen

2019

Information Systems Journal

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“…Latour, 1987b;Star, 1995;Kling et al, 2003). However, despite its appropriateness for Open Source research (Divitini et al, 2003), few researchers so far have adopted such an analytical framework (exceptions can be found in the work of Tuomi (2001), Mahendran (2002), Osterlie (2004)). Instead, OSS research has generally focused either on the social side of the phenomenon (e.g.…”

Section: The Hybrid Nature Of Open Source Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…either through case studies Robles-Martinez et al, 2003;Gonzalez-Barahona et al, 2004) or the analysis of similar data over a large number of projects (Ghosh and Prakash, 2000;Krishnamurthy, 2002;Madey et al, 2002). Finally, another segment of OSS research has investigated its institutional dimensions, for instance by replacing OSS into a larger ecology of community-centered practices (Tuomi, 2001), describing its political economy (Weber, 2000), or comparing it to other institutions such as science (Bezroukov, 1999;Kelty, 2001). …”

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Socialization in an Open Source Software Community: A Socio-Technical Analysis

Ducheneaut

2005

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Abstract. Open Source Software (OSS) development is often characterized as a fundamentally new way to develop software. Past analyses and discussions, however, have treated OSS projects and their organization mostly as a static phenomenon. Consequently, we do not know how these communities of software developers are sustained and reproduced over time through the progressive integration of new members. To shed light on this issue I report on my analyses of socialization in a particular OSS community. In particular, I document the relationships OSS newcomers develop over time with both the social and material aspects of a project. To do so, I combine two mutually informing activities: ethnography and the use of software specially designed to visualize and explore the interacting networks of human and material resources incorporated in the email and code databases of OSS. Socialization in this community is analyzed from two perspectives: as an individual learning process and as a political process. From these analyses it appears that successful participants progressively construct identities as software craftsmen, and that this process is punctuated by specific rites of passage. Successful participants also understand the political nature of software development and progressively enroll a network of human and material allies to support their efforts. I conclude by discussing how these results could inform the design of software to support socialization in OSS projects, as well as practical implications for the future of these projects.

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“…Esta nueva revista es una iniciativa de la Information Resources Management Association, que ha identificado que ANT constituye un marco descriptivo habitual utilizado por la comunidad de investigadores sobre TIC. En particular, todo lo relacionado con la innovación distribuida y el trabajo colaborativo en las comunidades que desarrollan código abierto son campos de trabajo en los que ANT se ha aplicado de un modo iluminador (Tuomi, 2001). …”

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La teoría del actor-red y la tesis de la tecnociencia

Echeverría¹,

González²

2009

Arbor

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Actor-network theory and the analysis of technoscience developed by Javier Echeverría (2003) RESUMEN:La teoría del actor-red y el análisis de la tecnociencia desarrollado por Javier Echeverría (2003) presentan múltiples puntos comunes, pero también importantes divergencias. Mientras que el análisis de la tecnociencia responde al intento filosófico de clasificar y caracterizar las modalidades de práctica científico-tecnoló-gica contemporánea, el conjunto de herramientas metodológicas de la teoría del actor-red trae al primer plano el desorden oculto tras la ordenada apariencia de la tecnociencia, la contemporánea y la de épocas pasadas. Sin embargo, la teoría del actor-red se muestra útil para describir las complejas redes tejidas por centros de investigación, instituciones, universidades y empresas, y los productos resultantes de las mismas en términos de orden natural y social. En este trabajo caracterizamos someramente tanto la teoría del actorred como la tecnociencia, para identificar de qué modo ambas, pese a sus diferencias, pueden beneficiarse mutuamente. PALABRAS CLAVE:Estudios sobre ciencia, tecnociencia, teoría del actor-red. TEORÍA DEL ACTOR-RED Y TECNOCIENCIA: EL GIRO HACIA LA PRÁCTICA EN LOS ESTUDIOS DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍALa teoría del actor-red (actor-network theory o ANT) 1 se origina en los años setenta y ochenta del pasado siglo XX como un desarrollo en el dinámico panorama de los estudios sociales sobre ciencia y tecnología del momento. La sociología del conocimiento científico de Edimburgo y Bath, la antropología de laboratorio y los nuevos enfoques en historia de la ciencia y la tecnología son el contexto en el que aparecen en París los primeros casos de estudio con la metodología del actor-red. Bruno Latour (1988) y Michel Callon (1986) analizan ejemplos tan variados como Pasteur y las vieiras de la bahía de St. Brieuc para ofrecer las características de lo que John Law (2007) 2 denomina la versión ortodoxa de ANT, aquella que se desarrolló fundamentalmente durante los años noventa.La revolución en los estudios sobre la ciencia y la tecnología había aparecido ligada al imperativo de buscar la explicación del contenido de la ciencia en su "contexto social". Una ideología política determinada, cierto interés econó-mico o algún arraigado prejuicio eran el tipo de factores que se rastreaban para explicar la génesis y legitimación de las teorías científicas. Para dar cuenta de la construcción de la naturaleza, defendía la revolución constructivista, es necesario apelar a la sociedad. Sin embargo, algunos autores se mostraron insatisfechos con esta "sociología de lo social" y argumentaron que el "contexto social" no tiene una fuerza explicativa real; porque, al contrario de lo que se defendía y practicaba en Edimburgo o en Bath, lo natural y lo social se "coproducen" mutuamente.Este cambio de rumbo tuvo como influencias, entre otras, el estudio de los sistemas sociotécnicos desarrollado por Thomas Hughes (1983), en el que elementos organizati-

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Internet, innovation, and open source: Actors in the network

Cited by 58 publications

References 34 publications

The Third Design Space: A postcolonial perspective on corporate engagement with open source software communities

The Third Design Space: A postcolonial perspective on corporate engagement with open source software communities

Socialization in an Open Source Software Community: A Socio-Technical Analysis

La teoría del actor-red y la tesis de la tecnociencia

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