The top five reasons for lurking: Improving community experiences for everyone

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 201-223

  Preece, Jenny ^a   Nonnecke, Blair ^b   Andrews, Dorine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Behavior; Bulletin board; Lurkers; Online community; Open ended text questions; Posters; Support; Survey; Textbox questions

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDUCATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; HEALTH; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

ATTITUDES; BEHAVIOR; BULLETIN BOARD; LURKERS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; OPEN-ENDED TEXT QUESTIONS; POSTERS; TEXTBOX QUESTIONS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 1142279649     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2003.10.015     Document Type: Article

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