Challenging Code
A Sociological Reading of the KDE Free Software Project
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2322151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Binta Alleyne (0000-0002-5275-9292, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author), Brian Alleyne (Goldsmiths University of London) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 496-511 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038038511399620 |
| OpenAlex | W2083379695 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 24 |
Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) challenges the norms and relations of the capitalist software industry that is at the core of network society. Many people involved in FLOSS see themselves as activists in a new social movement. The article discusses the KDE (Kool Desktop Environment) project as a FLOSS case study. KDE is one of several projects intended to bring ease of use of a graphical user interface (GUI) to various free operating systems. (The operating system is the underlying software on top of which sit applications we use directly such as web browsers or word processors.) The article considers the KDE project from three broad perspectives - 'cosmological', technical, and organizational - in order to examine the expressed world-view and technical organization of the project through an established sociological approach to activism and social movements
Business · Code (set theory) · Operating system · Order (exchange) · Programming language · Reading (process) · Sociology · Software engineering · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Information Society and Technology Trends · Law · Open Source Software Innovations · Software
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Theories of the Information Society
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The Second Self
Die Internet-Galaxie
Theories of the Information Society
Capitalism and the Information Age
Cyberimperialism? Global relations in the new electronic frontier
Capitalism and the Information Age
Media,Technology and Society
A Sociology of Hackers
Epistemological Pluralism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2019 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |