DocumentCode :
1583867
Title :
Gendered Patterns of Politeness in Free/Libre Open Source Software Development
Author :
Moon, Eunyoung
fYear :
2013
Firstpage :
3168
Lastpage :
3177
Abstract :
In this paper, a qualitative case study of women-dominated Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) project is conducted to explore factors which successfully involve and sustain women FLOSS participants by drawing on Brown and Levinsonâs politeness theory. The culture and norms of FLOSS appear to be formulated by what is privileged/marginalized by men in the context of FLOSS, and such menâs valuing is likely to threaten women FLOSS participantsâ face. Our findings are 1) in the FLOSS context, there are gender-based differences in determining what threatens face on the basis of gendered expectations of what is polite, and 2) women-dominated FLOSS participants are âpracticallyâ polite in software development practices. These findings were explored through an in-depth analysis of interaction episodes on the email list, archival public interview data of women FLOSS developers, FLOSS development environment, and instructive materials shared in public. Our paper shows how politeness theory can be extended to the âpracticeâ of coding and non-coding work, and provides FLOSS communities with guidelines for involving and sustaining women participants in FLOSS development.
Keywords :
Collaboration; Communities; Context; Electronic mail; Face; Interviews; Software; Free/Libre Open Source Software; distributed collaboration;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences (HICSS), 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wailea, HI, USA
ISSN :
1530-1605
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5933-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-1605
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2013.240
Filename :
6480226
Link To Document :
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