Detecting changes in suicide content manifested in social media following celebrity suicides

HT 2015 - Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 85-94

  Kumar, Mrinal ^a   Dredze, Mark ^b   Coppersmith, Glen ^b   De Choudhury, Munmun ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental health; Reddit; Social media; Suicide; Werther effect

Indexed keywords

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS;

MENTAL HEALTH; REDDIT; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUICIDE; WERTHER EFFECT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84956979970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2700171.2791026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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