Understanding lurkers in online communities: A literature review

N Sun, PPL Rau, L Ma - Computers in Human Behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
In internet culture, lurkers are a special group of website users who regularly login to online
communities but seldom post. This study aims to provide an overall understanding of lurkers …

A life-cycle perspective on online community success

A Iriberri, G Leroy - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2009 - dl.acm.org
Using the information systems lifecycle as a unifying framework, we review online
communities research and propose a sequence for incorporating success conditions during …

Digital visual engagement: influencing purchase intentions on Instagram

C Valentini, S Romenti, G Murtarelli… - Journal of communication …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of visual communications on
Instagram users' propensity to engage with image-based content through online behaviors …

Crowdsourcing new product ideas over time: An analysis of the Dell IdeaStorm community

BL Bayus - Management science, 2013 - pubsonline.informs.org
Several organizations have developed ongoing crowdsourcing communities that repeatedly
collect ideas for new products and services from a large, dispersed “crowd” of nonexperts …

The Arab Spring and social media audiences: English and Arabic Twitter users and their networks

A Bruns, T Highfield, J Burgess - American behavioral …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Although popular media narratives about the role of social media in driving the events of the
2011 “Arab Spring” are likely to overstate the impact of Facebook and Twitter on these …

Enhancing perceived interactivity through network externalities: An empirical study on micro-blogging service satisfaction and continuance intention

L Zhao, Y Lu - Decision support systems, 2012 - Elsevier
Users' continuance intention is vital to the future of micro-blogging service with rapid
development and intensive competitions among its providers. This study examines how …

Influence of personality on travel-related consumer-generated media creation

KH Yoo, U Gretzel - Computers in human behavior, 2011 - Elsevier
While a growing number of travelers engages in consumer-generated media (CGM) use and
creation, the gap between the number of users and the number of actual content creators …

Sense‐making in social media during extreme events

S Stieglitz, D Bunker, M Mirbabaie… - … of Contingencies and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
During an extreme event, individuals use social media to communicate, self‐organize,
manage, and mitigate risks (crisis‐related communications) but also to make sense of the …

Towards more systematic Twitter analysis: metrics for tweeting activities

A Bruns, S Stieglitz - International journal of social research …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Twitter is an important and influential social media platform, but much research into its uses
remains centred around isolated cases–eg of events in political communication, crisis …

Quantitative approaches to comparing communication patterns on Twitter

A Bruns, S Stieglitz - Methods for analyzing social media, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
To date, the available literature mainly discusses Twitter activity patterns in the context of
individual case studies, while comparative research on a large number of communicative …