Silent Participants: Getting to Know Lurkers Better

By Blair Nonnecke, J. Preece. 2003

207 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Information Systems and Management, Human-Computer Interaction

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Citations in the corpus

• Perceptions of Social Loafing in Online Learning Groups: A study of Public University and U.S. Naval War College students (2008, unknown): “…and individual behaviors that include shirking, lurking (Palloff & Pratt, 2003; Salmon, Giles & Allen, 1997; Rovai, 2000; Nonnecke & Preece, 1999; Nonnecke & Preece, 2003; Schlosser, 2005), dominance, aggression (Michaelsen, Fink & Knight, 1997), social loafing (Moede, 1927; Dashiell, 1930;…”
• Socialization in an Open Source Software Community: A Socio-Technical Analysis (2005, background): “Von Krogh et al. (2003), for instance, clearly describe how successful ''joiners'' spend a significant period of time ''lurking'' at the periphery (Nonnecke and Preece, 2003), simply observing activities (step 1).”
• Interaction and cognitive engagement: An analysis of four asynchronous online discussions (2006, background): “Lurkers and lurking are part of an online group and without insight into lurkers and lurking, our understanding of online groups is incomplete (Nonnecke & Preece, 2003).”