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Papers by Eunyoung Moon
Information and Organization, Feb 29, 2024
Modularity has been seen as key to the success of OSS projects. However empirical studies on modu... more Modularity has been seen as key to the success of OSS projects. However empirical studies on modularity of OSS systems have resulted in confusing results. To account for underlying mechanisms of those confusing results, we systematically examine widely studied OSS projects. Based on our systematic review on technical and organizational structures, we suggest that organizational circumstances of OSS production are at least in a continuum of tightly-coupled and loosely-coupled organizational circumstances of production in which both geographically distributed volunteers and paid developers with organizational ties work together (albeit separately over time). Furthermore, organizational circumstances of OSS production appear to be dynamic, as firms move in and out of OSS production communities over time. In essence we argue that the reason for the confusing empirical results was a persistent assumption that organizational circumstances of OSS production are static or unitary; rather wh...
The day-to-day work of information workers charged with information creation, organization, prese... more The day-to-day work of information workers charged with information creation, organization, presentation, preservation, analysis, and retrieval is changing dramatically because of rapid advances in technology, the ubiquitous availability of information, and the increasing diversity and globalization of users, patrons, and co-workers. Further, the jobs themselves are changing, such that information workers are not likely to focus on one traditional information task, but must integrate other knowledge and skills, such as data analysis (with large data) and social media. The array of jobs and tasks leads us to ask: what are the core competencies for all information studies students? The authors conducted a survey of more than 2,000 information professionals focusing on six information work roles (archivy, data analysis, librarianship, records/digital assets management, social media, and user experience) to find out about their day-to-day work and their recommendations for formal curric...
Academy of Management Proceedings
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2021
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) held in conjunction with the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 2016
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that loosely-coupled developers will develop a loosely-coupled ... more The mirroring hypothesis predicts that loosely-coupled developers will develop a loosely-coupled software system. However, empirical studies have brought confusing results about the mirroring relationship in open source software (OSS) production: loosely-coupled OSS contributors have developed a tightlycoupled system, deviating from theoretical prediction, but are still successful. This study aims to provide better understanding about "breaking the mirror" in community-based OSS production in which there is no significant corporate participation. We propose it is not the mirroring hypothesis that is broken, but the manner in which we conceptualize and measure organizational configurations in OSS production.
Professional software practices increasingly involve software sharing and collaborative developme... more Professional software practices increasingly involve software sharing and collaborative development of software. As science becomes an increasingly collaborative enterprise, is there any increasing need for collaborative software practices? We collected data from geoscientists in early career stages with diverse research areas. Although they had varying software development skills, they consistently emphasized the need for improved software sharing and reuse. Moreover they wish to learn more about modern software sharing, open source communities, and collaborative software development practices as they become more interested in various aspects of software stewardship. We briefly examine the current educational resources that early career scientists may have encountered and note that very few address the issues raised by our respondents. Accordingly, we argue that these aspects of work in today's science ought to be incorporated in scientific method and education curricula for sc...
Modularity has been seen as key to the success of OSS projects. However empirical studies on modu... more Modularity has been seen as key to the success of OSS projects. However empirical studies on modularity of OSS systems have resulted in confusing results. To account for underlying mechanisms of those confusing results, we systematically examine widely studied OSS projects. Based on our systematic review on technical and organizational structures, we suggest that organizational circumstances of OSS production are at least in a continuum of tightly-coupled and loosely-coupled organizational circumstances of production in which both geographically distributed volunteers and paid developers with organizational ties work together (albeit separately over time). Furthermore, organizational circumstances of OSS production appear to be dynamic, as firms move in and out of OSS production communities over time. In essence we argue that the reason for the confusing empirical results was a persistent assumption that organizational circumstances of OSS production are static or unitary; rather what matters is the organizational circumstances of production in any episode of contribution. This research agenda paper proposes future inquiries to develop a comprehensive picture of ecological shift in different levels of system modularity and organizational circumstances of OSS production over time and through episodes.
While prior studies on Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) users have mainly looked at FLOSS ... more While prior studies on Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) users have mainly looked at FLOSS users in the context of FLOSS communities, little is known about whether and how FLOSS communities play a role in the context of its users' careers. This study takes an inductive approach to investigate the phenomena that are emergent and poorly understood. As promising themes emerge from a pilot study on Drupal users' local face-to-face meetings, the author proposes research question and research design. The proposed study plans to investigate local LAMP (Linux, Apache web server, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) users who attend local face-to-face meetings. The proposed study pays attention to: what role do FLOSS users' local face-to-face meetings play in the context of their career-related activities. It is expected that the proposed study will contribute to FLOSS research by giving a new insight into FLOSS users in their careers, how FLOSS projects fit into local FLOSS users' careers, and how to manage offline activities for FLOSS users.
Proceedings of the ACM 2013 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Companion, 2013
Models including network effects are often invoked to justify the high value of social network se... more Models including network effects are often invoked to justify the high value of social network services like Facebook. Yet as time passes and user numbers grow, inevitably so does reach across social circles, creating "online tension" or, as we term it, mismatch of social display. This leads to reduced participation. Social network services respond with efforts to segment networks through efforts like separate 'friend lists'. We provide a conceptual framework and a visualization to incorporate these insights into models of network effects and social network value.
Proceedings of 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2013
Our findings are 1) in the FLOSS context, there are gender-based differences in determining what ... more Our findings are 1) in the FLOSS context, there are gender-based differences in determining what threatens face on the basis of gendered expectations of what is polite, and 2) women-dominated FLOSS participants are "practically" polite in software development practices. These findings were explored through an in-depth analysis of interaction episodes on the email list, archival public interview data of women FLOSS developers, FLOSS development environment, and instructive materials shared in public. Our paper shows how politeness theory can be extended to the "practice" of coding and noncoding work, and provides FLOSS communities with guidelines for involving and sustaining women participants in FLOSS development.
International Journal of Social Computing and Cyber …, Jan 1, 2011
Current blog systems rank 'A-list' bloggers, but they are not necessarily influential. To differe... more Current blog systems rank 'A-list' bloggers, but they are not necessarily influential. To differentiate influential bloggers from popular bloggers, we present important groundwork for identifying influential bloggers by weighting readers based on homophily and vulnerability with bloggers. We develop the Quantifying Influence Model (QIM), which attempts to measure the influence score of bloggers. QIM is composed of two components: (1) interpersonal similarity presents the interaction among bloggers and like-minded readers, and (2) degree of information propagation represents how many readers a blogger has, where the readers diffuse the blog posts via scrapping engagements. Our study shows that weighting blog social ties can differentiate influential bloggers from popular bloggers, and what make bloggers influential or popular.
Information and Organization, Feb 29, 2024
Modularity has been seen as key to the success of OSS projects. However empirical studies on modu... more Modularity has been seen as key to the success of OSS projects. However empirical studies on modularity of OSS systems have resulted in confusing results. To account for underlying mechanisms of those confusing results, we systematically examine widely studied OSS projects. Based on our systematic review on technical and organizational structures, we suggest that organizational circumstances of OSS production are at least in a continuum of tightly-coupled and loosely-coupled organizational circumstances of production in which both geographically distributed volunteers and paid developers with organizational ties work together (albeit separately over time). Furthermore, organizational circumstances of OSS production appear to be dynamic, as firms move in and out of OSS production communities over time. In essence we argue that the reason for the confusing empirical results was a persistent assumption that organizational circumstances of OSS production are static or unitary; rather wh...
The day-to-day work of information workers charged with information creation, organization, prese... more The day-to-day work of information workers charged with information creation, organization, presentation, preservation, analysis, and retrieval is changing dramatically because of rapid advances in technology, the ubiquitous availability of information, and the increasing diversity and globalization of users, patrons, and co-workers. Further, the jobs themselves are changing, such that information workers are not likely to focus on one traditional information task, but must integrate other knowledge and skills, such as data analysis (with large data) and social media. The array of jobs and tasks leads us to ask: what are the core competencies for all information studies students? The authors conducted a survey of more than 2,000 information professionals focusing on six information work roles (archivy, data analysis, librarianship, records/digital assets management, social media, and user experience) to find out about their day-to-day work and their recommendations for formal curric...
Academy of Management Proceedings
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2021
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) held in conjunction with the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 2016
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that loosely-coupled developers will develop a loosely-coupled ... more The mirroring hypothesis predicts that loosely-coupled developers will develop a loosely-coupled software system. However, empirical studies have brought confusing results about the mirroring relationship in open source software (OSS) production: loosely-coupled OSS contributors have developed a tightlycoupled system, deviating from theoretical prediction, but are still successful. This study aims to provide better understanding about "breaking the mirror" in community-based OSS production in which there is no significant corporate participation. We propose it is not the mirroring hypothesis that is broken, but the manner in which we conceptualize and measure organizational configurations in OSS production.
Professional software practices increasingly involve software sharing and collaborative developme... more Professional software practices increasingly involve software sharing and collaborative development of software. As science becomes an increasingly collaborative enterprise, is there any increasing need for collaborative software practices? We collected data from geoscientists in early career stages with diverse research areas. Although they had varying software development skills, they consistently emphasized the need for improved software sharing and reuse. Moreover they wish to learn more about modern software sharing, open source communities, and collaborative software development practices as they become more interested in various aspects of software stewardship. We briefly examine the current educational resources that early career scientists may have encountered and note that very few address the issues raised by our respondents. Accordingly, we argue that these aspects of work in today's science ought to be incorporated in scientific method and education curricula for sc...
Modularity has been seen as key to the success of OSS projects. However empirical studies on modu... more Modularity has been seen as key to the success of OSS projects. However empirical studies on modularity of OSS systems have resulted in confusing results. To account for underlying mechanisms of those confusing results, we systematically examine widely studied OSS projects. Based on our systematic review on technical and organizational structures, we suggest that organizational circumstances of OSS production are at least in a continuum of tightly-coupled and loosely-coupled organizational circumstances of production in which both geographically distributed volunteers and paid developers with organizational ties work together (albeit separately over time). Furthermore, organizational circumstances of OSS production appear to be dynamic, as firms move in and out of OSS production communities over time. In essence we argue that the reason for the confusing empirical results was a persistent assumption that organizational circumstances of OSS production are static or unitary; rather what matters is the organizational circumstances of production in any episode of contribution. This research agenda paper proposes future inquiries to develop a comprehensive picture of ecological shift in different levels of system modularity and organizational circumstances of OSS production over time and through episodes.
While prior studies on Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) users have mainly looked at FLOSS ... more While prior studies on Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) users have mainly looked at FLOSS users in the context of FLOSS communities, little is known about whether and how FLOSS communities play a role in the context of its users' careers. This study takes an inductive approach to investigate the phenomena that are emergent and poorly understood. As promising themes emerge from a pilot study on Drupal users' local face-to-face meetings, the author proposes research question and research design. The proposed study plans to investigate local LAMP (Linux, Apache web server, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) users who attend local face-to-face meetings. The proposed study pays attention to: what role do FLOSS users' local face-to-face meetings play in the context of their career-related activities. It is expected that the proposed study will contribute to FLOSS research by giving a new insight into FLOSS users in their careers, how FLOSS projects fit into local FLOSS users' careers, and how to manage offline activities for FLOSS users.
Proceedings of the ACM 2013 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Companion, 2013
Models including network effects are often invoked to justify the high value of social network se... more Models including network effects are often invoked to justify the high value of social network services like Facebook. Yet as time passes and user numbers grow, inevitably so does reach across social circles, creating "online tension" or, as we term it, mismatch of social display. This leads to reduced participation. Social network services respond with efforts to segment networks through efforts like separate 'friend lists'. We provide a conceptual framework and a visualization to incorporate these insights into models of network effects and social network value.
Proceedings of 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2013
Our findings are 1) in the FLOSS context, there are gender-based differences in determining what ... more Our findings are 1) in the FLOSS context, there are gender-based differences in determining what threatens face on the basis of gendered expectations of what is polite, and 2) women-dominated FLOSS participants are "practically" polite in software development practices. These findings were explored through an in-depth analysis of interaction episodes on the email list, archival public interview data of women FLOSS developers, FLOSS development environment, and instructive materials shared in public. Our paper shows how politeness theory can be extended to the "practice" of coding and noncoding work, and provides FLOSS communities with guidelines for involving and sustaining women participants in FLOSS development.
International Journal of Social Computing and Cyber …, Jan 1, 2011
Current blog systems rank 'A-list' bloggers, but they are not necessarily influential. To differe... more Current blog systems rank 'A-list' bloggers, but they are not necessarily influential. To differentiate influential bloggers from popular bloggers, we present important groundwork for identifying influential bloggers by weighting readers based on homophily and vulnerability with bloggers. We develop the Quantifying Influence Model (QIM), which attempts to measure the influence score of bloggers. QIM is composed of two components: (1) interpersonal similarity presents the interaction among bloggers and like-minded readers, and (2) degree of information propagation represents how many readers a blogger has, where the readers diffuse the blog posts via scrapping engagements. Our study shows that weighting blog social ties can differentiate influential bloggers from popular bloggers, and what make bloggers influential or popular.