Use of GitHub as a platform for open collaboration on text documents

Longo, Justin; Kelley, Tanya M.

doi:10.1145/2788993.2789838

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“…On the other hand, GitHub -a popular online service for software development within large distributed teams-has also been widely studied for collaborative writing of software, owing to its attributes of transparency and versioning [12,16]. GitHub has also been appropriated for other collaborative scenarios which differ from software development, for example, management of archival activities in libraries [13], and open collaboration on textual documents [33]. Furthermore, the use of GitHub in collaborative writing projects aiming to develop non-software digital artifacts has been examined by Pe-Than et al [43].…”

Section: Technological Support For Co-writing Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“WhatsApp in Politics?!”: Collaborative Tools Shifting Boundaries

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Pellaton

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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We examine the technological aspects of political collaborative practices in one of the first studies of participatory constitution writing in the course of its progression. In particular, we examine how digital collaborative and communicative tools can facilitate (or inhibit) the permeation of boundaries, which manifest through the differences in political ideologies and partisan beliefs. Our study is grounded in interviews with 15 members of the Constituent Assembly in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, and its primary contribution is in constructing a fine-grained contextualized understanding of political collaborations, their evolution, and their relationship with collaborative tools. Our findings demonstrate the centrality of versatile and widely available digital tools (such as WhatsApp and Google Docs) in political work. In addition, elected lawmakers prefer tools that allow them to organize their collaborative and communicative actions based on dynamic social boundaries, and their need for asynchronous work practices. We observed a tendency of simultaneously using multiple digital tools to accomplish specific political objectives, and leveraging them in plenary sessions for strategic advantages. On the one hand, collaborative tools enabled strategic advantages by selective permeation of boundaries across political ideologies. On the other hand, lack of awareness about boundaries between ‘private’ and ‘public’ on social networks were considered as privacy blind spots. By focusing on boundaries of different kinds, our paper elucidates how the introduction of digital technologies into political process transforms the long-established categories, distinctions and divisions that are often taken for granted.

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Section: Technological Support For Co-writing Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“WhatsApp in Politics?!”: Collaborative Tools Shifting Boundaries

Verma

Mlynář

Pellaton

et al. 2021

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…The specific collaboration platform we focus on here is the digital project web service GitHub, principally used for hosting collaborative application and web development projects (Bell and Beer 2015;Gousios, Pinzger, and van Deursen 2013;Peterson 2013;Storey et al 2014) though increasingly being applied to a range of digital project purposes in recent years (Lawson 2013;McMillan 2013b) including collaboration on text documents (Longo and Kelley 2015;Lowry, Curtis, and Lowry 2004;Voelter 2013;Zagalsky et al 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

GitHub use in public administration in Canada: Early experience with a new collaboration tool

Longo¹,

Kelley²

2016

Can Public Adm

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GitHub is a web‐based digital project hosting service that facilitates collaboration. We introduce how GitHub works and assess how it has been used in the public sector in Canada based on interviews with federal government leaders and a survey of Canadian public service GitHub users. With little research to date on public sector use of GitHub, and none on its use in Canadian governments, we explore the early experience with this collaboration tool and consider the possible implications for collaboration in government.

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