Just Here for the Comments : Lurking As Digital Literacy Practice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sipley, Gina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Online social networks.

Social media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024.

Summary:

This book challenges the conventional perspective of what 'counts' as participatory online culture. Presenting 'lurking' on social media newsfeeds as a communication and literacy practice that resists dominant power structures, it offers an innovative approach to digital qualitative methods.

Contents:

Front Cover

Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Table

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Everyone's a Lurker

An autoethnographic confession: I'm a lurker

And the research says: you're a lurker, too

Literacy practices of lurkers

1 "Don't Mind Me": The History of Lurkers from Lerkere to Thriller

The hunter and the hunted

Clever criminals

Perverted readers

Selfish free-riders

Trollish antagonizers

2 Readers Have History: Towards a Transactional Theory of New Literacies

The audience and the reader

Reading as metaphor

The digital reservoir

Transactional Theory of New Literacies

3 "To Let Others Know They Are Not Alone": Lurking and Community

The neighbourhoods

Literacy practices

Receptive reading

Participatory restraint

Protective curation

Reflexive entertainment

Limitations

Copyright notice

4 "Aint That Special": Moderating in the Age of Digital Exploitation

Affinity groups

Required receptive reading

Health groups

Sensemaking

Neighbourhood groups

Participatory restraint against moderators

Conclusion

5 Resistance and Refusal: (Re)Evaluating Media Literacy

Metaphoric literacy

Colonizing effects of literacy

Lurking as privilege

Confronting global challenges to media literacy

Continued emphasis on youth

Public participation centred

Inclusive standards

6 How Do We Account for Lurking? Implications for Social Science Researchers

Accounting for lurkers

Quantifying passive participation

Surveys

Community mapping

Interviews

Ethically engaging lurkers

Lurkers are people

Consent: recruiting, not luring

Implications of not including lurkers.

Lack of diverse participants

Overreliance on platform perceptions

Potentially flawed findings

Conclusion: Participatory. And Valuable?

Lurkers can be valuable

Platforms

Communities

Businesses

Autoethnographic reflections on the value of lurking

The 'Why I hate Facebook' poem

Notes

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781529227314

1529227313

9781529227291

1529227291

9781529227307

1529227305