Technology Communities

I am thinking of computer science and related disciplines in terms of questions having to do with the sociology of knowledge. I do need to look into the work that has been done surrounding the communities which form around any given specialized knowledge, especially since specialties inevitably develop their own jargon that outsiders will fail to understand. The idea is that a natural communication boundary starts to form around those with insiders' understanding where outsiders will require some type of translator to gain access to the texts.
All technology specializations appear to be most distant to political corruption, but perhaps this is even more true for communications technologies. Of course communications was a side benefit for the initial users of computers. Computers were built to solve math problems and computer networks to share the resulting files. It was merely incidental that those original users embedded their own commentary in the midst of all of that. But now what is happening? The so-called social media is a major force for challenging the communications monopolies previously enjoyed by major publishers and media outlets. Why are they even calling this 'social media'? Because that name illuminates its contrast to Big Media.
If we turn our attention to Linux, those users heavily reference themselves as a community. Indeed one of the big draws to learning something about computer technology is the social component. We can learn about this interesting stuff that everyone uses but few understand while building relationships with some quality people. Such people don't tend to get too embroiled in useless debates. They do have a few political ideals, of course, that are basically intrinsic to the art form: freedom of speech, personal privacy, etc. But if you think about it, these ideals should be shared by everyone, even though they are sometimes overlooked for the sake of somebody's political agendas.