Lurker demographics: counting the silent

By Blair Nonnecke, J. Preece. 2000

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Human-Computer Interaction

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Averaging Gone Wrong: Using Time-Aware Analyses to Better Understand Behavior (2016, background): “Most users in social networks are known to be lurkers: seeking information and observing, rather than contributing content [44,54].”
Quantifying the invisible audience in social networks (2013, background): “In addition, there are consistent patterns in online communities that might bias estimates: for example, the prevalence of lurkers who do not provide feedback or contribute [29] and a typical pattern of focusing interactions on a small number of people in the network [4].”
Electronic Survey Methodology: A Case Study in Reaching Hard-to-Involve Internet Users (2003, methodology): “A study into the nature of participation in online communities was undertaken to follow up on previous studies, the first (Nonnecke & Preece, 2000) which explored why people lurk using a small, qualitative, face-to-face interview methodology.”
Sociability and usability in online communities: Determining and measuring success (2001, background): “The term means different things to different people (Preece, 2000).”
The top five reasons for lurking: improving community experiences for everyone (2004, background): “In a more recent study examining lurker rates (Nonnecke, 2000; Nonnecke & Preece, 2000) , lurkers made up 45.5% of health support communities and 82% of software support communities.”
WHY LURKERS LURK (2001, background): “For example, the effect of persistence on online communication (Nonnecke and Preece, 2000b), and viewing lurkers’ context as filters to public participation (Nonnecke 2000).”
Non-public and public online community participation: Needs, attitudes and behavior (2006, background): “We know, as mentioned above, that the amount of lurking varies in different types of communities [1, 2].”
Virtual communities: A marketing perspective (2009, background): “Community sizes vary greatly, but may amount to hundreds of thousands of users [67].”
Relationships in online communities: the potential for marketers (2010, background): “The term “lurkers” was first coined by Nonnecke and Preece (2001)”
Motivations to participate in online communities (2010, background): “In their recent work [18] these authors prefer the term “nonpublic users” to lurker, and argue they do play a role in sites as audience and as potential future contributors.”
Characterizing Silent Users in Social Media Communities (2015, background): “In practice, however, lurking is a very common behavior found in many content providing sites (Nonnecke and Preece 2000; Muller et al. 2010; Antin and Cheshire 2010; Benevenuto et al. 2009; Bernstein et al. 2013).”
Lurking? cyclopaths?: a quantitative lifecycle analysis of user behavior in a geowiki (2010, background): “Those who do not participate but only view are called lurkers [19].”
Representations of 'trolls' in mass media communication: a review of media-texts and moral panics relating to 'internet trolling' (2014, background): “This art was lost by the start of the 21st century, and resulted in a number of research papers discussing the prevalence of non-participation, or lurking , and how this could be overcome through greater involvement of elders (Bishop, 2007; Nonnecke and Preece, 2000; Preece et al., 2004).”