Just Here for the Comments

Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2728-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 234 g

We all sometimes ‘lurk’ in online spaces without posting or engaging, just reading the posts and comments. But neither reading nor lurking are ever passive acts. In fact, readers of social media are making decisions and taking grassroots actions on multiple dimensions.

Unpacking this understudied phenomenon, this book challenges the conventional perspective of what counts as participatory online culture. Presenting lurking as a communication and literacy practice that resists dominant power structures, it offers an innovative approach to digital qualitative methods.

Unique and original in its subject, this is a call for internet researchers to broaden their methods to include lurkers’ participation and presence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sipley, Gina

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Everyone’s a Lurker

1. Don’t Mind Me: The History of Lurkers From Lerkere To Thriller

2. Readers Have History: Towards A Transactional Theory of New Literacies

3. To Let Others Know They Are Not Alone: Lurking and Community

4. Aint That Special: Moderating In The Age of Digital Exploitation

5. Resistance and Refusal: (Re)Evaluating Media Literacy

6. How Do We Account For Lurking?: Implications for Social Science Researchers

Conclusion: Participatory. And Valuable?

Über Autor(innen)

Sipley, Gina
Gina Sipley is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Nassau Community College. Sipley is a first generation college graduate.

Gina Sipley is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Nassau Community College. Sipley is a first-generation college graduate.