Is a lurker always lurking?

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Communications - Multimedia Internet New Technologies grade: 10 University of Bremen course: E-Business - Virtual Communities language: English abstract: This paper presents a brief case study that was conducted to determine whether lurking is related to a specific topic or not. It is based on a short online survey which was made available on the internet for a period of 14 days. The results of this study may lead to a better understanding of lurking why there are so many lurkers and why lurking should not be seen in such a negative way any more.