Re: [Air-L] Research on "passive" social media use?
What about just "observers"? Robert Berkman Associate Professor, Media Studies The New School
yes, or "silent participants", which is already used. Bearing in mind as it was noted on Sharon's post, that these silent participants can be "talking" (commenting, posting or reacting) elsewhere, online and offline too. Amparo ----- Mensaje original ----- De: RBerkman@aol.com Fecha: Viernes, Noviembre 6, 2009 14:19 Asunto: Re: [Air-L] Research on "passive" social media use? A: hgz@austin.utexas.edu, air-l@listserv.aoir.org
What about just "observers"?
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Amparo Lasén Dpto Sociología I Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología UCM Campus de Somosaguas Pozuelo de Alarcón 28223 0034913942899 alasen@cps.ucm.es
Robert, Amparo and all ~ Yes, I have nothing against other operationalizations of the dichotomous relationship between the users and the medium. For my studies I used active vs. passive, as it reflected more active users versus somehow more passive ones. That doesn't necessarily mean passive blog users are 1) passive for everything they do in the Internet and 2) active media information seekers, as they "actively" browse information and blogs over the Internet. To be honest, I am not so concerned about the tag we use for describing the phenomenon (and others may be and that is fine). We could say super active and less active, or use many other labels or tags: observes, silent participants, etc... I am most interested in analyzing the possible differences between both categories regardless of the name : -) Best, HGZ Homero Gil de Zúñiga Assistant Professor Director, Center for Journalism & Communication Research School of Journalism College of Communication University of Texas - Austin www.utexas.edu Voice (512) 471 6323 Fax (512) 471 7979 From: MARIA AMPARO LASEN DIAZ [mailto:alasen@cps.ucm.es] Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 8:30 AM To: RBerkman@aol.com Cc: Gil De Zuniga, Homero; air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Research on "passive" social media use? yes, or "silent participants", which is already used. Bearing in mind as it was noted on Sharon's post, that these silent participants can be "talking" (commenting, posting or reacting) elsewhere, online and offline too. Amparo ----- Mensaje original ----- De: RBerkman@aol.com Fecha: Viernes, Noviembre 6, 2009 14:19 Asunto: Re: [Air-L] Research on "passive" social media use? A: hgz@austin.utexas.edu, air-l@listserv.aoir.org
What about just "observers"?
Robert Berkman Associate Professor, Media Studies The New School _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Amparo Lasén Dpto Sociología I Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología UCM Campus de Somosaguas Pozuelo de Alarcón 28223 0034913942899 alasen@cps.ucm.es
You may be interested in an article I recently wrote looking at passive use in the context of reusing technical support messages. Some statistics are provided on list archive use that I believe are unique in the literature, as well as qualitative findings describing the challenges of reusing other's content. Hansen, Derek. Overhearing the Crowd: An Empirical Examination of Conversation Reuse in a Technical Support Community. Communities and Technologies, 2009. University Park, PA. Derek On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Gil De Zuniga, Homero <hgz@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
Robert, Amparo and all ~ Yes, I have nothing against other operationalizations of the dichotomous relationship between the users and the medium. For my studies I used active vs. passive, as it reflected more active users versus somehow more passive ones. That doesn't necessarily mean passive blog users are 1) passive for everything they do in the Internet and 2) active media information seekers, as they "actively" browse information and blogs over the Internet. To be honest, I am not so concerned about the tag we use for describing the phenomenon (and others may be and that is fine). We could say super active and less active, or use many other labels or tags: observes, silent participants, etc... I am most interested in analyzing the possible differences between both categories regardless of the name : -) Best, HGZ
Homero Gil de Zúñiga Assistant Professor Director, Center for Journalism & Communication Research School of Journalism College of Communication University of Texas - Austin www.utexas.edu Voice (512) 471 6323 Fax (512) 471 7979
From: MARIA AMPARO LASEN DIAZ [mailto:alasen@cps.ucm.es] Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 8:30 AM To: RBerkman@aol.com Cc: Gil De Zuniga, Homero; air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Research on "passive" social media use?
yes, or "silent participants", which is already used. Bearing in mind as it was noted on Sharon's post, that these silent participants can be "talking" (commenting, posting or reacting) elsewhere, online and offline too.
Amparo
----- Mensaje original ----- De: RBerkman@aol.com Fecha: Viernes, Noviembre 6, 2009 14:19 Asunto: Re: [Air-L] Research on "passive" social media use? A: hgz@austin.utexas.edu, air-l@listserv.aoir.org
What about just "observers"?
Robert Berkman Associate Professor, Media Studies The New School _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Amparo Lasén Dpto Sociología I Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología UCM Campus de Somosaguas Pozuelo de Alarcón 28223 0034913942899 alasen@cps.ucm.es _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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