The (in)visible barriers to free software: Inequalities in online communities in Spain
The (in)visible barriers to free software: Inequalities in online communities in Spain
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自由软件的（不）可见的障碍：西班牙在线社区的不平等
DOI：
10.24434/j.scoms.2021.01.011
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发表时间：
2020
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通讯作者：
Dafne Calvo
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作者：
Dafne Calvo
自由文化社区支持自学、同伴生产和不受任何限制地传播知识。然而，自由文化社区并没有与外部世界的社会不平等隔绝。了解（在）知名度（在）解决这些社区内部代表性不足的能力，本研究旨在分析他们的成员配置文件和他们对这个问题的看法。为此，对290个社区进行了在线问卷调查，并对其中37个先前接受调查的社区的成员进行了访谈。答复者和受访者承认，技术政治需要对其价值观的技术影响有广泛的了解，这使得进入和参与社区更加困难。他们还批评了其社区的性别偏见，最后但并非最不重要的是，指出了与其社区成员的性取向、社会经济水平或种族出身有关的其他不平等现象。
Free culture communities support self-learning, peer production, and the distribution of knowledge generated without any restrictions. However, free culture communities are not isolated from the social inequalities of the outside world. Understanding (in)visibility as the (in)ability to address internal under-representation within these communities, this research aims to analyse their member profiles and their perception of this issue. To this end, an online questionnaire was administered to 290 communities and interviews were conducted with members of 37 of these previously surveyed communities. The respondents and interviewees acknowledged that technopolitics requires a broad knowledge of the technical implications of their values, which makes access to and participation in a community more difficult. They also criticised the gender bias of their communities and, last but not least, pointed to other inequalities relating to the sexual orientation, socioeconomic level, or ethnic origin of the members of their communities.