[ritwikgupta]

I think the heart of what you're getting at lays in the world of ethnographies. Perhaps a cultural anthropologist would take a hand at documenting the process of developing for the Linux kernel, its rich history, and all the minutiae that go into it.

[rgfvdcxz]

Read up on the field on Science and Technology Studies (STS). STS researchers do this kind of work all the time, since the 1970s.

More specifically, check out the work of Matt Ratto, who defended his 2003 dissertation on this exact topic: https://bit.ly/2YQL1yf