TY - JOUR
T1 - How Modern News Aggregators Help Development Communities Shape and Share Knowledge
AU - Aniche, Maurício
AU - Treude, Christoph
AU - Steinmacher, Igor
AU - Wiese, Igor
AU - Pinto, Gustavo
AU - Storey, Margaret Anne
AU - Gerosa, Marco Aurélio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Many developers rely on modern news aggregator sites such as Reddit and Hacker News to stay up to date with the latest technological developments and trends. In order to understand what motivates developers to contribute, what kind of content is shared, and how knowledge is shaped by the community, we interviewed and surveyed developers that participate on the Reddit programming subreddit and we analyzed a sample of posts on both Reddit and Hacker News. We learned what kind of content is shared in these websites and developer motivations for posting, sharing, discussing, evaluating, and aggregating knowledge on these aggregators, while revealing challenges developers face in terms of how content and participant behavior is moderated. Our insights aim to improve the practices developers follow when using news aggregators, as well as guide tool makers on how to improve their tools. Our findings are also relevant to researchers that study developer communities of practice.
AB - Many developers rely on modern news aggregator sites such as Reddit and Hacker News to stay up to date with the latest technological developments and trends. In order to understand what motivates developers to contribute, what kind of content is shared, and how knowledge is shaped by the community, we interviewed and surveyed developers that participate on the Reddit programming subreddit and we analyzed a sample of posts on both Reddit and Hacker News. We learned what kind of content is shared in these websites and developer motivations for posting, sharing, discussing, evaluating, and aggregating knowledge on these aggregators, while revealing challenges developers face in terms of how content and participant behavior is moderated. Our insights aim to improve the practices developers follow when using news aggregators, as well as guide tool makers on how to improve their tools. Our findings are also relevant to researchers that study developer communities of practice.
KW - News aggregators
KW - development communities
KW - knowledge sharing
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U2 - 10.1145/3180155.3180180
DO - 10.1145/3180155.3180180
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85133561771
SN - 0270-5257
VL - 2018-January
SP - 499
EP - 510
JO - Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
JF - Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
T2 - 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018
Y2 - 27 May 2018 through 3 June 2018
ER -