This group began in 2002 as an event convened under the auspices of TESOL EVOnline (Electronic Village) but has carried on as a community of practice or a distributed learning network ever since. Participants meet informally throughout the year and regularly each Sunday noon GMT at http://www.tappedin.org to help each other learn about forming and maintaining robust online communities through hands-on practice with synchronous and non-synchronous text and multimedia CMC (computer mediated communication) tools.
Types of lurking Type Scope Description Temporary - situational Act In an instance of logging into the system, the user does not post anything Temporary -
These references do not deal with online lurkers directly, but rather offline lurkers--lurkers in our face-to-face classes and in our academic lives. But I
I remember Chris Johnson held that the p.c. term for 'lurker' was 'boundary member' . This is not a subcategory, as you seem to be looking for, but the term