Meaning of photolurking | Babel Free

Definitions

The practice of viewing online photos, especially those of strangers, without leaving comments, but possibly discussing them with third parties.

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Examples

“Another interesting phenomenon that emerges from photolog is photolurking. The activity of photolurking is rich involving both personal browsing and searching and also social activity. Photolurking is browsing and looking at people’s photographs without participating in discussion or addressing the owner of the photographs or photologs, whilst still discussing them in other avenues.”

“But perhaps most disturbing of all was the detection of a phenomenon known as “photolurking” which involves an obsession with browsing the online photo albums of complete strangers.”

“With the indulgence of photolurking, the viewer experiences engagement and emotion, the viewer experiences engagement and emotion”

“A recent trend, called photolurking in the literature, in which an individual takes another person's photograph and, without his or her knowledge, discusses its details with a third party in a different setting (Khalid & Dix, 2007) has become yet another aspect of phubbing due to smartphones' ever increasing capabilities and iniquitousness.”

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