Identity management and mental health discourse in social media

WWW 2015 Companion - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 315-321

  Pavalanathan, Umashanthi ^a   De Choudhury, Munmun ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Health; Identity; Mental health; Reddit; Social media; Throwaways

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WORLD WIDE WEB;

IDENTITY; MENTAL HEALTH; REDDIT; SOCIAL MEDIA; THROWAWAYS;

HEALTH;

EID: 84968608497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2740908.2743049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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