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This chapter summarizes main literature and relating findings from social science and human-computer interaction research, focusing on: the different interpretations of lurking and related implications, the motivational factors underlying this kind of user behavior, and the main criteria to promote delurking of lurkers.

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    Andrea Tagarelli

  2. UMR TETIS, CIRAD, Montpellier, France

    Roberto Interdonato

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Tagarelli, A., Interdonato, R. (2018). Background. In: Mining Lurkers in Online Social Networks. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00229-9_2

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