Non-public and public online community participation: Needs, attitudes and behavior
Electronic Commerce Research
Invisible participants: how cultural capital relates to lurking behavior
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Lurking as participation: a community perspective on lurkers' identity and negotiability
ICLS '06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Learning sciences
Pedagogical lurking: Student engagement in non-posting discussion behavior
Computers in Human Behavior
Relationship between the level of intimacy and lurking in online social network services
Computers in Human Behavior
Content Quality Assessment Related Frameworks for Social Media
ICCSA '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications: Part II
Twitter power: Tweets as electronic word of mouth
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Readers are not free-riders: reading as a form of participation on wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Motivations to participate in online communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
IWIC'07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Intercultural collaboration
Moving forward?: the use of ICT and web 2.0 tools in the Catalan third social sector
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society - Selected Papers from ETHICOMP 2010
Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
"What's coming next?" Epistemic curiosity and lurking behavior in online communities
Computers in Human Behavior
A Knowledge Management Tool for the Interconnection of Communities of Practice
International Journal of Knowledge Management
Media Richness in Online Consumer Interactions: An Exploratory Study of Consumer-Opinion Web Sites
Information Resources Management Journal
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The a-symmetry of activity in virtual communities is of great interest. While participation in the activities of virtual communities is crucial for a community's survival and development, many people prefer lurking, that is passive attention over active participation. Often, lurkers are the vast majority. There could be many reasons for lurking. Lurking can be measured and perhaps affected by both dispositional and situational variables. This project investigates social and cultural capital, situational antecedents of lurking and de-lurking. We propose a novel way of measuring such capital, lurking, and de-lurking. We try to figure out what are the triggers to active participation. We try to answer this by mathematically defining a social communication network of activities in authenticated discussion forums. Authenticated discussion forums provide exact log information about every participant's activities and allow us to identify lurkers that become first time posters. The proposed Social Communication Network approach (SCN) is an extension of the traditional social network methodology to include, beyond human actors, discussion topics (e.g. Usenet newsgroups threads) and subjects of discussions (e.g. Usenet groups) as well. In addition the Social Communication Network approach distinguishes between READ and POST link types. These indicate active participation on the part of the human actor. We attempt to validate this model by examining the SCN using data collected in a sample of 82 online forums. By analyzing a graph structure of the network at moments of initial postings we verify several hypotheses about causes of de-lurking and provide some directions towards measuring active participation in virtual communities.