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T1 Exploring Organization through Contributions: using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices
A1 Rozas Domingo, David
A1 Huckle, Steven
A2 Simon, Gillian
A2 Pritchard, Katrina
A2 Hine, Christine
AB 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.
PB Oxford University Press
SN 9780198860686
YR 2021
FD 2021-10-21
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/5094
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/5094
LA eng
NO Unión Europea. H2020
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 9 abr 2025