Algorithmic Interactions in Open Source Work

作     者：Shaikh, Maha Vaast, Emmanuelle 

作者机构：Kings Coll London London WC2R 2LS England McGill Univ Desautels Fac Management Montreal PQ H3A IG5 Canada 

出 版 物：《INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH》 (Inf. Syst. Res.)

年 卷 期：2023年第34卷第2期

页      面：744-765页

核心收录：

学科分类：1205[管理学-图书情报与档案管理] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 08[工学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：algorithmic interactions open source work modularity parallel development augmentation and automation qualitative study 

摘      要：This study focuses on algorithmic interactions in open source work. Algorithms are essential in open source because they remedy concerns incompletely addressed by parallel development or modularity. Following algorithmic interactions in open source allows us to map the performance of algorithms to understand the nature of work conducted by multiple algorithms functioning together. We zoom to the level of algorithmic interactions to show how residual interdependencies of modularity are worked around by algorithms. Moreover, the dependence on parallel development does not suffice to resolve all concerns related to the distributed work of open source. We examine the Linux Kernel case that reveals how algorithmic interactions facilitate open source work through the three processes of managing, organizing, and supervising development work. Our qualitative study theorizes how algorithmic interactions intensify through these processes that work together to facilitate development. We make a theoretical contribution to open source scholarship by explaining how algorithmic interactions navigate across module rigidity and enhance parallel development. Our work also reveals how, in open source, developers work to automatemost tasks and augmentation is a bidirectional relationship of algorithms augmenting the work of developers and of developers augmenting the work of algorithms.