The Many-Faced User: A Review of Engagement and Participant Styles
Throughout my learning, I have been introduced to various users and participation practices within networks and communities. As I just just completed a knowledge sharing and tracking experience, I think it's important to be aware of the types of users that exist and also to reflect on the various user types to improve my awareness of my own engagement and participation practices and patterns. Communities: Lurker- reading posts regularly, but never posting or having an active presence in the community. Lurking is a passive role, where the user does not engage with members or like their posts or comments. Active Contributor- a user that posts, comments, asks questions regularly and actively contributes to the content and discussions with other community members. Knowledge Practices: Expertise locating- users "search for and retrieve codified knowledge without having to contact the person who originally developed it" Expertise locating involves knowledge...