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Rozas Domingo, David

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Rozas Domingo
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Ingeniería del Software e Inteligencia Artificial
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    Exploring Organization through Contributions: using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices
    (Research Methods for Digital Work and Organization: Investigating distributed, multi-modal and mobile work, 2021) Rozas Domingo, David; Huckle, Steven; Simon, Gillian; Pritchard, Katrina; Hine, Christine
    This chapter focuses on peer-production as a form of collaborative digital work, closely allied to crowdsourcing and other contemporary working practices that are mediated by digital platforms. Such platforms are a growing form of digital work; however, they raise complex methodological issues. First, although often a single collaborative platform coordinates groups, work can be distributed globally. Second, multimodal approaches require the researcher to transition between online and offline media. Finally, it can be challenging to identify what is ‘work’ as activity boundaries are blurred. It is argued that the use of Activity Theory overcomes some of these issues and its utility in an analysis of the production of the open source software, Drupal, is demonstrated, highlighting the potential for Activity Theory to enable cross-contextual comparisons and proposing the concept of ‘socio-technical systems of contribution’ as a way to understand interactions between networks of collaboration. The limitations of the approach and potential future developments are noted.
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    Loosen Control Without Losing Control. Formalisation and Decentralisation within Commons-Based Peer Production
    (Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2020) Rozas Domingo, David; Huckle, Steven
    This study considers commons-based peer production (CBPP) by examining the organizational processes of the free/libre open-source software community, Drupal. It does so by exploring the sociotechnical systems that have emerged around both Drupal's development and its face-to-face communitarian events. There has been criticism of the simplistic nature of previous research into free software; this study addresses this by linking studies of CBPP with a qualitative study of Drupal's organizational processes. It focuses on the evolution of organizational structures, identifying the intertwined dynamics of formalization and decentralization, resulting in coexisting sociotechnical systems that vary in their degrees of organicity.