Passive participation in communities of practice: Scope and motivations

Azi Lev-On; Odelia Adler

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3_8

Passive participation in communities of practice: Scope and motivations

Azi Lev-On, Odelia Adler

The Moscowitz School of Communication

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

4 Scopus citations

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Social Informatics - 5th International Conference, SocInfo 2013, Proceedings
Pages	81-94
Number of pages	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3_8
State	Published - 2013
Event	5th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2013 - Kyoto, Japan Duration: 25 Nov 2013 → 27 Nov 2013

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	8238 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	5th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2013
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kyoto
Period	25/11/13 → 27/11/13

Keywords

communication
communities of practice
lurking
online communities
participation
passive participation

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3_8

Cite this

Lev-On, A., & Adler, O. (2013). Passive participation in communities of practice: Scope and motivations. In Social Informatics - 5th International Conference, SocInfo 2013, Proceedings (pp. 81-94). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8238 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3_8

@inproceedings{b93d8748b9c84fe491b5f9ae946d2d88,

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",

doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3_8",

language = "אנגלית",

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",

}

Lev-On, A & Adler, O 2013, Passive participation in communities of practice: Scope and motivations. in Social Informatics - 5th International Conference, SocInfo 2013, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 8238 LNCS, pp. 81-94, 5th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2013, Kyoto, Japan, 25/11/13. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3_8

Passive participation in communities of practice: Scope and motivations. / Lev-On, Azi; Adler, Odelia.
Social Informatics - 5th International Conference, SocInfo 2013, Proceedings. 2013. p. 81-94 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8238 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

TY - GEN

T1 - Passive participation in communities of practice

T2 - 5th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2013

AU - Lev-On, Azi

AU - Adler, Odelia

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - communication

KW - communities of practice

KW - lurking

KW - online communities

KW - participation

KW - passive participation

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84892180063&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3_8

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3_8

M3 - ???researchoutput.researchoutputtypes.contributiontobookanthology.conference???

AN - SCOPUS:84892180063

SN - 9783319032597

T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

SP - 81

EP - 94

BT - Social Informatics - 5th International Conference, SocInfo 2013, Proceedings

Y2 - 25 November 2013 through 27 November 2013

ER -

Passive participation in communities of practice: Scope and motivations

Abstract

Publication series

Conference

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this