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So they "lurk".

Demanding that everyone subscribing a mail list participates in discussions is just exaggerating. If this were the case, such a mail list would merit a research effort being a social outlier.

Frank Thomas

>
>It seems to be my day for commenting...
>
>I think the term "lurker/lurking" is needlessly and misleadingly
>perjorative--suggesting someone observing with potentially ill-intent.
>
>I much prefer the term "monitoring"... I "monitor" a lot of lists without
>participating in them...reading them for ideas, references, trends.  That
>is for me one of the special values of the Net and particularly email
>lists--a way to observe the passing parade in a particular area without a
>huge amount of on-going effort or resource expenditure.
>
>I'm delighted to have people "monitor" the lists I'm active in--sometimes
>out of the blue they will make a very useful contribution, or they will
>make a telling observation privately that they are unwilling to make
>publicly, or just that they may usefully pass on to others ideas or
>observations that they are gleaning from their silent "monitoring"
>activities.
>
>Also, I know from direct experience that in many cases, lists are being
>"monitored" by those, who because of their own situations or their
>perception of their own situations, are unable to directly contribute--
>people in government, or corporations, for example.  But they are certainly
>"monitoring" the discussions and I like to think that this "monitoring" is
>in some cases having a useful, perhaps even socially beneficial impact on
>otherwise inaccessible policy or corporate strategy deliberations.
>
>regs
>
>Mike Gurstein
>
>Michael Gurstein, Ph.D.
>(Visiting) Professor:  School of Management
>New Jersey Institute of Technology
>Newark, NJ
>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, robert m. tynes wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone come across research on *lurking*? I'm looking for any
>>> pertinent articles. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Jenny Preece has been doing some intersting work on lurking.  She is
>> professor and chair in Information Systems at University of Maryland,
>> Baltimore County.  Check out:  http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/~preece/
>>
>> david silver
>> http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver/
>>
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>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, robert m. tynes wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone come across research on *lurking*? I'm looking for any
>>> pertinent articles. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Jenny Preece has been doing some intersting work on lurking.  She is
>> professor and chair in Information Systems at University of Maryland,
>> Baltimore County.  Check out:  http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/~preece/
>>
>> david silver
>> http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver/
>>
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