Gendered work culture in free/libre open source software development

Lin, Yuwei; Besten, Matthijs den

doi:10.1111/gwao.12255

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“…Other problems, such as commoners' drop-out, alienation, and burnouts (Rozas, Gilbert, and Hodkinson 2015; 1 By means of a simple example, in the case of the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, commoners are not only those ones who write and revise articles, they are also the Wikipedia's software maintainers, the servers and database administrators, as well as the moderators for dispute and conflict resolutions, the fundraisers, and, to some extent, the donors. Poderi and Hakken 2014), or the presence of gender bias and collective forms of marginalization and exclusions (Lin and Besten 2018;O'Neil 2014) pose serious threats to the potential of platforms as commons and to their long-term sustainability.…”

Section: Sustaining Platforms As Commonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining platforms as commons: perspectives on participation, infrastructure, and governance

Poderi

2019

CoDesign

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This work finds its place within Participatory Design (PD) as a specific approach to co-design that focuses on the politics of technological innovation and sociotechnical transformations. In particular, the article contributes to the repositioning of co-design in the age of platform capitalism by engaging with the question: how can participatory designers approach interventions for the long-term sustainability of platforms as commons? As the contradictions and limitations of platform capitalism become increasingly evident, to engage with such a challenge is a way to pursue PD's renewed political agenda. The article foregrounds the concept of platforms as commons to bring designers' attention towards those platform arrangements which are antithetical to platform capitalism exploitative ones. By building on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), as a paradigmatic case of platform as commons, the article outlines participation, infrastructure, and governance as relevant perspectives for framing broad areas of sustainability concerns; and it articulates them along four approaches for supporting long-term sustainability in practice: maintaining, scaling, replicating, and evolving.Ultimately, this article provides participatory designers with a map of possible orientations to frame and support their work, research or interventions around the long-term sustainability of platforms as commons.

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Section: Sustaining Platforms As Commonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining platforms as commons: perspectives on participation, infrastructure, and governance

Poderi

2019

CoDesign

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“…We do, however, allow for country specific fixed effects, which control for variation arising from country characteristic, acknowledging country context can bring relevant factors such as formal and informal institutional conditions, value systems, cultural implications, and, attitudes towards entrepreneurship (Acs, Audretsch, Lehmann and Licht, 2016;Acs, Estrin, Mickiewicz and Szerb, 2018). The frequency, format and perception of sexualised jokes and language is considered to be context and industry-specific (Wilson et al 2013;Lin and den Besten 2018). We also cluster the standard errors by groups defined by country and sector to allow for within-group correlation in the residuals.…”

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Social sexual behaviour and co-worker trust in start-up enterprises

2020

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Workplace behaviors and norms are gaining increased prominence in the literature on start-up enterprises. Research attention has focused on the critical role that these behaviors and norms play in influencing start-up effectiveness but our understanding of their role in influencing trust in a start-up environment is underdeveloped. The present article investigates the role that workplace social sexual behaviors play in shaping co-worker trust within start-ups. Using data from the GUESSS (2018) international study of entrepreneurial attitudes and experiences, we find that certain social sexual behaviors undermine trust, and related outcomes such as the willingness to delegate and the sense that co-workers are honest. In particular, experiencing inappropriate looks, flirtation, or sexual gossip predict lower levels of co-worker trust. Our findings also indicate that characteristics of the source of the behavior are important in terms of gender and hierarchical relationship. In our discussion section, we consider the mechanisms underlying these relationships and in particular how social sexual behavior may influence trustworthiness. Taken together, our results point to a significant efficiency cost to new enterprises that take a permissive view of social sexual behavior in the workplace.

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“…• Geek masculinity, a general term variably described as a "masculine understanding of identity that is visible across technology culture" ... "in which technological mastery forms the basis of masculine esteem and social status" [25,67,136], with references to Kendall [105], Bucholtz [27], Eglash [55], and Lin and den Besten [119]. • Toxic gamer culture, focused on video game sites and which "frames gaming as a male-gendered, potentially violent space" [82,126], via Consalvo [39].…”

Section: Technology-oriented Masculinitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interacting with Masculinities: A Scoping Review

Seaborn

2023

Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Gender is a hot topic in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Work has run the gamut, from assessing how we embed gender in our computational creations to correcting systemic sexism, online and off. While gender is often framed around women and femininities, we must recognize the genderful nature of humanity, acknowledge the evasiveness of men and masculinities, and avoid burdening women and genderful folk as the central actors and targets of change. Indeed, critical voices have called for a shift in focus to masculinities, not only in terms of privilege, power, and patriarchal harms, but also participation, plurality, and transformation. To this end, I present a 30-year history of masculinities in HCI work through a scoping review of 126 papers published to the ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) conference proceedings. I offer a primer and agenda grounded in the CHI and extant literatures to direct future work.

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Gendered work culture in free/libre open source software development

Abstract: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Sustaining platforms as commons: perspectives on participation, infrastructure, and governance

Sustaining platforms as commons: perspectives on participation, infrastructure, and governance

Social sexual behaviour and co-worker trust in start-up enterprises

Interacting with Masculinities: A Scoping Review

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