Using Foreign Forums

The paper considers the use of online technical  discussions by software developers in Rio de Janeiro,  Brazil, drawing on the results of a 5 month interview  study.   In the course of their daily work, Brazilian  software developers routinely rely on online resources,  which   include   as   a   key   component   foreign   forums  dedicated to technical questions.   In rare cases, they  actively participate in those forums; somewhat more  often they “lurk."   Even more often, however, forum  posts are simply found while searching for a specific  topic.  Forums are thus experienced not as intertwining  threads of conversations, but rather as a searchable  collection   of   questions   and   answers   free   from  conversational   context,   which   is   appreciated   in   a  detached, asocial way. The   paper   thus   looks   at   the   use   of   persis...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Yuri Takhteyev
• Keywords: Biometrics, Component Foreign Forums , Discussions by software developers in rio de janeiro, From Conversational Context, HICSS 2007, System Sciences