Forum77: An analysis of an online health forum dedicated to addiction recovery

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1511-1526

  MacLean, Diana ^a   Gupta, Sonal ^a   Lembke, Anna ^b   Manning, Christopher ^a   Heer, Jeffrey ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

addiction; cessation; online health forums; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; GROUPWARE; HEALTH; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS;

ADDICTION; CESSATION; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; ONLINE HEALTH FORUMS; PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIER; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TRANSTHEORETICAL MODELS;

RECOVERY;

EID: 84968831144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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