
- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
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.
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Yes, you can access Just Here for the Comments by Gina Sipley in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Computer Science & Digital Marketing. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Table
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- 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?
- Notes
- Index