The (R) Evolution of social media in software engineering
Margaret‐Anne Storey, Leif Singer, Brendan Cleary, Fernando Figueira Filho, Alexey Zagalsky · 2014
Software developers rely on media to communicate, learn, collaborate, and coordinate with others. Recently, social media has dramatically changed the landscape of software engineering, challenging some old assumptions about how developers learn and work with one another. We see the rise of the social programmer who actively participates in online communities and openly contributes to the creation of a large body of crowdsourced socio-technical content.