Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: 1,0, University of Bremen, course: E-Business - Virtual Communities, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper presents a brief case study, that was conducted to determine whether lurking is related to a specific topic or not. It is based on a short online survey which was made available on the internet for a period of 14 days. The results of this study may lead to a better understanding of lurking, why there are so many lurkers and why lurking should not be seen in such a negative way any more.