Issues associated with participation in on line forums—the case of the communicative learner
Education and Information Technologies
Lurking: An Underestimated Human-Computer Phenomenon
IEEE MultiMedia
Invisible participants: how cultural capital relates to lurking behavior
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Increasing participation in online communities: A framework for human-computer interaction
Computers in Human Behavior
Pedagogical lurking: Student engagement in non-posting discussion behavior
Computers in Human Behavior
What is online learner participation? A literature review
Computers & Education
Developing the role concept for computer-supported collaborative learning: An explorative synthesis
Computers in Human Behavior
"Who's out there?": identifying and ranking lurkers in social networks
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
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Drawing upon the emergent idea that "the negotiation of meaning involves the interaction of participation and reification", this study proposes an entirely different perspective on lurking. Collecting data from 82 group forums with a total of 490 members, we identify 46 lurking learners by comparing the online/postings ratio of each member within the group. Further classification of these lurkers provides an opportunity to highlight the neglected contribution of the types of lurkers who go online regularly but post only sporadically from the framework of knowledge co-construction. This paper concludes by challenging the common emphasis on the quantity of postings.