[Air-L] Research on "passive" social media use?

[Hernando Rojas]

For those of you interested in this discussion between active and passive you might want to look at:

Gil de Zúñiga, H. (2009) “Blogs, Journalism and Political Participation”. In Papacharissi, Z. (Eds.) Journalism and Citizenship: New Agendas, (pp. 108-123). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, LEA/Francis Taylor. 

for a distinction between "paasive" and "active" blogging

Best,
Hernando
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Hernando Rojas
Assistant Professor
Department of Life Sciences Communication
School of Journalism & Mass Communication (affiliated) 
Latin American Caribbean & Iberian Studies (affiliated)
University of Wisconsin - Madison

----- Original Message -----
From: MARIA AMPARO LASEN DIAZ <alasen at cps.ucm.es>
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009 7:13 am
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Research on "passive" social media use?
To: "M.B.Gaved" <M.B.Gaved at open.ac.uk>
Cc: "'air-l at listserv.aoir.org'" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>


> Hi Mark and everyone,
> 
> Yes, you're right about the undertones of "lurker", and we could talk 
> about the undertones of "passive" too.
> 
> The problem I find for "passive" is that,  reading, watching and 
> listening are forms of participation and forms of interacting with the 
> content. Of course, they are different from the other content 
> productive forms of interaction, but my guess is that by calling ones 
> passive and the other active we are not accounting for what such 
> activities as listening and watching entail, as well as hiding their 
> role in the production of the content, in the way they contribute to 
> shape and to give meaning to what is written, played, displayed, etc.
> 
> All the best
> 
> Amparo
> ----- Mensaje original -----
> De: "M.B.Gaved" <M.B.Gaved at open.ac.uk>
> Fecha: Jueves, Noviembre 5, 2009 13:53
> Asunto: RE: [Air-L] Research on "passive" social media use?
> A: 'MARIA AMPARO LASEN DIAZ' <alasen at cps.ucm.es>
> CC: "'air-l at listserv.aoir.org'" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> 
> > Hi Amparo, all
> > 
> > It's certainly an interesting debate on what we should call 
> > users of social media who do not post comments or upload content.
> > 
> > I agree "passive" is maybe not a strong enough expression for 
> > non-contributory participation but I find it so much nicer than 
> > the terrible expression "lurkers" to describe such users!
> > 
> > I cringe and recoil when I hear the term "lurker". It suggests 
> > presence with dubious intentions to me, I think of some guy in a 
> > 1940s Hollywood gangster movie with a big coat and turned up 
> > collar waiting in a dark alley... :-)
> > 
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > Mark Gaved
> > 
> > The Open University
> > Milton Keynes
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> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-
> > bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of MARIA AMPARO LASEN DIAZ
> > Sent: 04 November 2009 17:24
> > To: klastrup at itu.dk
> > Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org; klastrup at itu.dk
> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Research on "passive" social media use?
> > 
> > Hi Lisbeth,
> > 
> > I wonder whether we shoud keep using this term "passive" to 
> > describe users who do not post comments or upload content, as 
> > listening, watching and reading are rich and meaningful ways of 
> > interacting with content (there is a vaste and not so new amount 
> > of scholar work on how the audiences in litterature and arts 
> > contribute to make what they listen, read and watch by these 
> > same activities of reading or lietening), regarding Internet 
> > Kate Crawford is working on this topic, you can found the paper 
> > she presented in the COST298 conference in Copenhagen this year 
> > in the online proceedings at
> > 
> > http://miha2.ef.uni-lj.si/cost298/gbc2009-proceedings/papers/P202.pdf
> > 
> > Best
> > 
> > Amparo
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 
> > 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity 
> > registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
> > 
> 
> Amparo Lasén Dpto Sociología I Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y 
> Sociología UCM Campus de Somosaguas Pozuelo de Alarcón 28223 
> 0034913942899 alasen at cps.ucm.es
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