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

[Gil De Zuniga, Homero]

Robert, Amparo and all ~
Yes, I have nothing against other operationalizations of the dichotomous relationship between the users and the medium. For my studies I used active vs. passive, as it reflected more active users versus somehow more passive ones. That doesn't necessarily mean passive blog users are 1) passive for everything they do in the Internet and 2) active media information seekers, as they "actively" browse information and blogs over the Internet.
To be honest, I am not so concerned about the tag we use for describing the phenomenon (and others may be and that is fine). We could say super active and less active, or use many other labels or tags: observes, silent participants, etc... I am most interested in analyzing the possible differences between both categories regardless of the name : -)
Best,
HGZ

Homero Gil de Zúñiga
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From: MARIA AMPARO LASEN DIAZ [mailto:alasen at cps.ucm.es]
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 8:30 AM
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Cc: Gil De Zuniga, Homero; air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Research on "passive" social media use?

yes, or "silent participants", which is already used. Bearing in mind as it was noted on Sharon's post, that these silent participants can be "talking" (commenting, posting or reacting) elsewhere, online and offline too.

Amparo

----- Mensaje original -----
De: RBerkman at aol.com
Fecha: Viernes, Noviembre 6, 2009 14:19
Asunto: Re: [Air-L] Research on "passive" social media use?
A: hgz at austin.utexas.edu, air-l at listserv.aoir.org

> What about just "observers"?
>
> Robert Berkman
> Associate Professor, Media Studies
> The New School
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