Rethinking lurking: invisible leading and following in a knowledge transfer ecosystem

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Rethinking lurking: invisible leading and following in a knowledge transfer ecosystem

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© 2015, Association for Information Systems. All rights reserved. The term lurker connotes a low-value role in online communities. Despite making up the majority of members, these invisible individuals are often cast as peripheral players who should be encouraged to participate more fully. We argue that the lurker concept is problematic and that online communities, and the roles associated with them, need to be reconceptualized. We report on a study of online communities in a New Zealand prof...

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02 Sep, 2020

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Jocelyn Cranefield / Pak Yoong / SL Huff

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https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Rethinking_lurking_invisible_leading_and_follo...

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Networks and Communities / Collaboration / Community Wide Systems / Interpretive / Case Study / Science & Technology / Technology / Computer Science, Information Systems / Information Science & Library Science / Computer Science / ONLINE COMMUNITIES / INFORMATION-SYSTEMS / ORGANIZATIONS / TECHNOLOGY / BOUNDARIES / INNOVATION / FRAMEWORK / FIELD / Information Systems / Business and Management

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