Barriers for Social Inclusion in Online Software Engineering Communities – A Study of Offensive Language Use in Gitter Projects

05/02/2023

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by   Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, et al.

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Social inclusion is a fundamental feature of thriving societies. This paper first investigates barriers for social inclusion in online Software Engineering (SE) communities, by identifying a set of 11 attributes and organising them as a taxonomy. Second, by applying the taxonomy and analysing language used in the comments posted by members in 189 Gitter projects (with > 3 million comments), it presents the evidence for the social exclusion problem. It employs a keyword-based search approach for this purpose. Third, it presents a framework for improving social inclusion in SE communities.