Getting more positive about the term lurker
I'm not sure I have ever linked to this and a friend asked about it today, so it seemed worth the risk of duplication. This .pdf , entitled LET'S GET MORE POSITIVE ABOUT THE TERM 'LURKER' Lurking from a Legitimate Peripheral Participation perspective... is a CPSquare Communities of Practice Foundations Class Project from June-July 2003. It is the work of Jacquie McDonald, Wendy Atkin, Frank Daugherity, Heather Fox, Alice MacGillivray, Doris Reeves-Lipscomb, and Poonlarp Uthailertaroon.
The team thought through the role of a lurker, someone who reads but does not post in an online interaction situation, and the relationship to the CoP concept of "legitimate peripheral participation." Then the went on to think about strategies to bring lurkers from the periphery to the core. Nice work and worth re-pointing.
posted by Nancy White at 8:44 PM
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As you say, Nancy, this link is worth posting. I remember I found it very stimulating reading when it first appeared. Shortly afterwards, we had a formal discussion at IFETS entitled "Participation in on-line courses - how essential is it?" which touched on some similar issues and is summarised in PDF at: http://www.ifets.info/journals/7_2/1.pdf
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