Understanding social media disclosures of sexual abuse through the lenses of support seeking and anonymity

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 3906-3918

  Andalibi, Nazanin ^a   Haimson, Oliver L ^b   De Choudhury, Munmun ^c   Forte, Andrea ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Identity; Reddit; Self disclosure; Sexual abuse; Social media; Social support; Stigma; Throwaway; Well being

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ANONYMITY; IDENTITY; REDDIT; SELF-DISCLOSURE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STIGMA; THROWAWAY; WELL BEING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84974832479     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2858036.2858096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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