Exploring Organization through Contributions: using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices

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. Firs...

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Autores: Rozas Domingo, David, Huckle, Steven
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/5094
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Activity Theory
Commons-Based Peer Production
Collaborative Economy Digital Labour
Drupal
Free/Libre Open Source Software
Platform Economy
Informática (Informática)
Sociología
Ciencias de la Información
1203.17 Informática
63 Sociología
5910.01 Información
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spelling Exploring Organization through Contributions: using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour PracticesRozas Domingo, DavidHuckle, StevenActivity TheoryCommons-Based Peer ProductionCollaborative Economy Digital LabourDrupalFree/Libre Open Source SoftwarePlatform EconomyInformática (Informática)SociologíaCiencias de la Información1203.17 Informática63 Sociología5910.01 InformaciónThis 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.Oxford University PressSimon, GillianPritchard, KatrinaHine, ChristineUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20212021-10-2120212021-10-21book parthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/5094reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/50942026-06-02T12:44:21Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Exploring Organization through Contributions: using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices
title Exploring Organization through Contributions: using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices
spellingShingle Exploring Organization through Contributions: using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices
Rozas Domingo, David
Activity Theory
Commons-Based Peer Production
Collaborative Economy Digital Labour
Drupal
Free/Libre Open Source Software
Platform Economy
Informática (Informática)
Sociología
Ciencias de la Información
1203.17 Informática
63 Sociología
5910.01 Información
title_short Exploring Organization through Contributions: using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices
title_full Exploring Organization through Contributions: using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices
title_fullStr Exploring Organization through Contributions: using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices
title_full_unstemmed Exploring Organization through Contributions: using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices
title_sort Exploring Organization through Contributions: using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rozas Domingo, David
Huckle, Steven
author Rozas Domingo, David
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Huckle, Steven
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Simon, Gillian
Pritchard, Katrina
Hine, Christine
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Activity Theory
Commons-Based Peer Production
Collaborative Economy Digital Labour
Drupal
Free/Libre Open Source Software
Platform Economy
Informática (Informática)
Sociología
Ciencias de la Información
1203.17 Informática
63 Sociología
5910.01 Información
topic Activity Theory
Commons-Based Peer Production
Collaborative Economy Digital Labour
Drupal
Free/Libre Open Source Software
Platform Economy
Informática (Informática)
Sociología
Ciencias de la Información
1203.17 Informática
63 Sociología
5910.01 Información
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