Understanding lurkers in online communities: A literature review

By Na Sun, Pei-Luen Patrick Rau, Liang Ma. Computers in Human Behavior, 2014

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Evolution of Consumption: A Psychological Ownership Framework (2020, background): “While the majority of users do not post personal information on social media (Sun, Rau, and Ma 2014), many consumers do divulge a variety of personal data online, such as their location on Foursquare or Instagram, their employment on Twitter or LinkedIn, their family on Facebook, and their spending…”
Why do people share their travel experiences on social media? (2020, background): “Earlier studies have defined the lurker concept in different ways, such as, “silent groups” (Sun, Rau, & Ma, 2014), as someone who has never shared any type of information on social networks (Preece, Nonnecke, & Andrews, 2004), a person who reads but never posts (Munar & Jacobsen, 2014), or an…”
Argumentation Mining in User-Generated Web Discourse (2016, background): “…or persuasion is inherent when users discuss controversial topics, but the true reasons why people participate in on-line communities and what drives their behavior is another research question (Bishop 2007; Cullen and Morse 2011; de Melo Bezerra and Hirata 2011; Sun, Rau, and Ma 2014).”
Understanding and Promoting Effective Engagement With Digital Behavior Change Interventions. (2016, background): “captured by quantitative usage data—such as “lurking,” a common phenomenon whereby users read and may benefit from the content in online social communities but do not actively interact with the digital intervention.(26,27) Typical qualitative methods include focus groups; interviews; observation of ”