ABSTRACT: ‘’Lurking, a discursive phenomenon in online communities, is often underemphasized. We draw on Wenger’s social theory of learning to explore particularly the characteristic of lurkers who are “online regularly” in order to scrutinize the active intentions of a group of seemingly passive participants. Using a mixture of methods, we identified 95 lurkers among 353 participants in a six-week inquiry learning community, and uncovered their process of negotiability and identification from a virtual ethnographic approach.'’

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