Just Here For The Comments: Lurking As Digital Literacy Practice
By Gina Sipley, MEd ’07 (teaching and learning)
June 3, 2024
We all sometimes “lurk” in online spaces without posting or engaging, just reading the posts and comments. But neither reading nor lurking are ever passive acts. In fact, readers of social media are making decisions and taking grassroots actions on multiple dimensions. Unpacking this understudied phenomenon, this book challenges the conventional perspective of what counts as participatory online culture. Presenting lurking as a communication and literacy practice that resists dominant power structures, it offers an innovative approach to digital qualitative methods.