Social media as a measurement tool of depression in populations

Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci'13

Volumn volume, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-56

  De Choudhury, Munmun ^a   Counts, Scott ^a   Horvitz, Eric ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Depression; Emotion; Health; Language; Mental health; Public health; Social media; Twitter; Wellness

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; LANGUAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER; WELLNESS;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 84883107600     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2464464.2464480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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