Netizens: on the history and impact of Usenet and the Internet
Netizens: on the history and impact of Usenet and the Internet
The dynamics of mass interaction
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
ProjectH: a collaborative quantitative study of computer-mediated communication
Network and Netplay
Lurker demographics: counting the silent
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
"Ask before you search": peer support and community building with reachout
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
What Do Virtual "Tells" Tell? Placing Cybersociety Research into a Hierarchy of Social Explanation
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 1 - Volume 1
Linked
Inhabiting the virtual city: the design of social environments for electronic communities
Inhabiting the virtual city: the design of social environments for electronic communities
Why do we ReachOut?: functions of a semi-persistent peer support tool
GROUP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 7 - Volume 7
We can see you: a study of communities' invisible people through reachout
Communities and technologies
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Improving the classification of newsgroup messages through social network analysis
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
Tag-based user modeling for social multi-device adaptive guides
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Comparing Chinese and German blogs
Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Lurking? cyclopaths?: a quantitative lifecycle analysis of user behavior in a geowiki
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Motivations to participate in online communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
Modelling and analysis of user behaviour in online communities
ISWC'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on The semantic web - Volume Part I
Do lurking learners contribute less?: a knowledge co-construction perspective
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
"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
Superposter behavior in MOOC forums
Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Learning @ scale conference
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The asymmetry 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. Lurking can be measured and perhaps affected by both dispositional and situational variables. This work investigates the concept of cultural capital as situational antecedent of lurking and de-lurking (the decision to start posting after a certain amount of lurking time). Cultural capital is defined as the knowledge that enables an individual to interpret various cultural codes. The main hypothesis states that a user's cultural capital affects her level of activity in a community and her decision to de-lurk and cease to exist in very active communities because of information overload. This hypothesis is analyzed by mathematically defining a social communication network (SCN) of activities in authenticated discussion forums. We validate this model by examining the SCN using data collected in a sample of 636 online forums in Open University in Israel and 2 work based communities from IBM. The hypotheses verified here make it clear that fostering receptive participation may be as important and constructive as encouraging active contributions in online communities.