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Lurker demographics: counting the silent
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As online groups grow in number and type, understanding lurking is becoming increasingly important. Recent reports indicate that lurkers make up over 90% of online groups, yet little is known about them.
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- Nonnecke, B., & Preece, J.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2000-04
- Pages
- 73-80
- OpenAlex
- W2149770420
- Cited by
- 572
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 58.76
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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