Converging Work-Talk Patterns in Online Task-Oriented Communities.

ABSTRACT: Much of what we do is accomplished by working collaboratively with others, and a large portion of our lives are spent working and talking; the patterns embodied in the alternation of working and talking can provide much useful insight into task-oriented social behaviors. The available electronic traces of the different kinds of human activities in online communities are an empirical goldmine that can enable the holistic study and understanding of these social systems. Open Source Software (OSS) projects are prototypical examples of collaborative, task-oriented communities, depending on volunteers for high-quality work. Here, we use sequence analysis methods to identify the work-talk patterns of software developers in online communities of Open Source Software projects. We find that softwar

SUBMITTER: Xuan Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4854445 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature