Lurking as participation: a community perspective on lurkers' identity and negotiability

Authors:
Yu-Wei Lee;Fei-Ching Chen;Huo-Ming Jiang
Affiliations:
National Central University;National Central University;National Central University
Venue:
ICLS '06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Learning sciences
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Lurking, a discursive phenomenon in online communities, is often underemphasized. We draw on Wenger's social theory of learning to explore particularly the characteristic of lurkers who are "online regularly" in order to scrutinize the active intentions of a group of seemingly passive participants. Using a mixture of methods, we identified 95 lurkers among 353 participants in a six-week inquiry learning community, and uncovered their process of negotiability and identification from a virtual ethnographic approach.