@inproceedings{4e073f8b09c34740b6088e73e8ca442c,
title = "Passive participation in communities of practice: Scope and motivations",
abstract = "In spite of its prevalence in online social media platforms, there have been very few studies of passive participation. The current study uses interviews to understand the motivations for passive participation in online communities of the Israeli Ministry of Social Services. In addition to the motivations commonly found when not participating {"}more actively{"}, such as concerns of criticism, lack of need, lack of motivation and technological concerns, users stated two additional and secondary reasons for not contributing content in the communities: concern that their posts would not be addressed (i.e. lack of reciprocation), and reasons relating to the graphical interface of the communities.",
keywords = "communication, communities of practice, lurking, online communities, participation, passive participation",
author = "Azi Lev-On and Odelia Adler",
year = "2013",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3\_8",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
isbn = "9783319032597",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
pages = "81--94",
booktitle = "Social Informatics - 5th International Conference, SocInfo 2013, Proceedings",
note = "5th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2013 ; Conference date: 25-11-2013 Through 27-11-2013",
}
