Women contributions to open source software innovation: A social constructivist perspective
The popularity of Open Source Software (OSS) is increasing as a platform for modern software innovation with the prominent concept of “freedom”. Freedom in OSS innovation is similar to freedom of speech not in term of price.However, less than 2% of the contributors are women in OSS innovation. Minor...
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| author | Mahmod, Musyrifah Mohd Yusof, Shafiz Affendi Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi |
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| description | The popularity of Open Source Software (OSS) is increasing as a platform for modern software innovation with the prominent concept of “freedom”. Freedom in OSS innovation is similar to freedom of speech not in term of price.However, less than 2% of the contributors are women in OSS innovation. Minorities including women are often ignored in OSS innovation process.The gender issues in OSS innovation might be more complex than what it seems, as female contributors are often experience hybrid discriminations, both from the male dominated OSS community and socio-cultural patriarchy.This paper concerns the questions of how innovation is achieved in open source software communities through social constructionist perspectives focusing on feminist views. |
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| spelling | uum-152272016-12-07T07:28:36Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/15227/ Women contributions to open source software innovation: A social constructivist perspective Mahmod, Musyrifah Mohd Yusof, Shafiz Affendi Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi QA76 Computer software The popularity of Open Source Software (OSS) is increasing as a platform for modern software innovation with the prominent concept of “freedom”. Freedom in OSS innovation is similar to freedom of speech not in term of price.However, less than 2% of the contributors are women in OSS innovation. Minorities including women are often ignored in OSS innovation process.The gender issues in OSS innovation might be more complex than what it seems, as female contributors are often experience hybrid discriminations, both from the male dominated OSS community and socio-cultural patriarchy.This paper concerns the questions of how innovation is achieved in open source software communities through social constructionist perspectives focusing on feminist views. 2010 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/15227/1/full.pdf Mahmod, Musyrifah and Mohd Yusof, Shafiz Affendi and Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi (2010) Women contributions to open source software innovation: A social constructivist perspective. In: International Symposium in Information Technology (ITSim), 2010, 15-17 June 2010, Kuala Lumpur. http://doi.org/10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561496 doi:10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561496 doi:10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561496 |
| spellingShingle | QA76 Computer software Mahmod, Musyrifah Mohd Yusof, Shafiz Affendi Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi Women contributions to open source software innovation: A social constructivist perspective |
| title | Women contributions to open source software innovation: A social constructivist perspective |
| title_full | Women contributions to open source software innovation: A social constructivist perspective |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Women contributions to open source software innovation: A social constructivist perspective |
| title_short | Women contributions to open source software innovation: A social constructivist perspective |
| title_sort | women contributions to open source software innovation a social constructivist perspective |
| topic | QA76 Computer software |
| url | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/15227/1/full.pdf |
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