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Impression formation in online peer production: activity traces and personal profiles in github

Year: 2013

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In this paper we describe a qualitative investigation of impression formation in an online distributed software development community with social media functionality. We find that users in this setting seek out additional information about each other to explore the project space, inform future interactions, and understand the potential future value of a new person. They form impressions around other users' expertise based on history of activity across projects, and successful collaborations with key high status projects in the community. These impressions influence their receptivity to strangers' work contributions.

Source: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441792

Authors: Jennifer Marlow, Laura Dabbish, Jim Herbsleb

Institution: Carnegie Mellon University

Language: English

Topic: Open Source Software Innovations

Subfield: Computer Science Applications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Carnegie Mellon University

Awards: HCC: Large: Collaborative Research: Large-Scale Human-Centered Coordination Systems to Support Interdependent Tasks in Context, The Scientific Software Network Map, Socio-technical ecosystems for scientific software development