@inbook {1734,
	title = {Examining Usability Work and Culture in OSS},
	booktitle = {Open Source Systems: Adoption and Impact},
	series = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology},
	volume = {451},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {58-67},
	publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
	organization = {Springer International Publishing},
	abstract = {Organizational culture has been recognized as an influential factor affecting the successes and failures of usability work in organizations; however, there is a lack of research on organizational culture in open source software (OSS) development. This paper shows that there are different kinds of cultures in OSS development projects and builds propositions on the relationship between culture and usability work in OSS development projects. Partly those are derived from the literature, partly from an exploratory empirical inquiry. We speculate whether there is an ideal culture type for usability work in OSS development or whether usability work should be modified to fit the different cultures of OSS development projects.
},
	keywords = {culture, empirical study, open source software, Usability},
	isbn = {978-3-319-17836-3},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-17837-0_6},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17837-0_6},
	author = {Rajanen, Mikko and Iivari, Netta},
	editor = {Damiani, Ernesto and Frati, Fulvio and Dirk Riehle and Wasserman, Anthony I.}
}
@proceedings {1293,
	title = {Virtual Health Information Infrastructures: A Scalable Regional Model},
	year = {2011},
	month = {10/2011},
	pages = {316-319},
	publisher = {Springer},
	abstract = {Integrating research, education and evidence-based medical practice requires complex infrastructures and network linkages among these critical activities. This research examines communities of practice and open source software tools in development of scalable virtual infrastructures for the regional Virtual Health Library of the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences System (Bireme) and embedded national cases. Virtual infrastructures refer to an environment characterized by overlapping distribution networks accessible through Internet portals and websites designed to facilitate integrated use of available resources. Case analysis shows engagement of interdisciplinary communities of practice for scalable virtual infrastructure design. This research program considers theory and methods for study of transferability of the Latin American model to large health care systems in other cultures.},
	keywords = {Bireme, Communities Of Practice, culture, open source systems, virtual infrastructures},
	author = {Seror, Ann}
}
@mastersthesis {43,
	title = {The social construction of freedom in free and open source software: Hackers, ethics, and the liberal tradition},
	volume = {PhD},
	year = {2005},
	school = {University of Chicago},
	type = {PhD Dissertation},
	address = {Chicago, Illinois},
	abstract = {This dissertation, based on fieldwork conducted between January 2001 and May 2003 on the Debian free software project and among hackers living in the Bay area, is an ethnography focused on the ethics and politics of free and open source hackers. My aim in this dissertation is to evaluate the rise of expressive rights among hackers as a historically and culturally specific practice of liberal freedom that can only be made sensible through the lens of a hacker technical way of life--in which their pragmatics and poetics are given serious consideration. Moving and integrating various levels of analysis: the phenomenology of technical praxis, the sociological creation of an ethical practice that unfolds in the hacker public sphere and the FOSS project, and the historical rise of reflective signification through overt political dissent, I offer a comprehensive account of how hackers have come to value and enact freedom, what they mean by it, and suggest some ideas about the broader political effects of their practices. Instead of an emphasis of self-determination and individuality based on the acquisition of property, hackers have placed emphasis on individuality as a form of critical self-determination that requires unrestricted access to knowledge in order to constantly develop technical skills and to progress the state of their technical art. Important for the purposes of this dissertation is that hackers challenge one sacred realm of liberal jurisprudence--intellectual property--by drawing on and reformulating ideals from another one--free speech.},
	keywords = {culture, hacker},
	author = {Coleman, E.G.}
}
