Video-mediated peer support in an online community for recovery from substance use disorders

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 1454-1469

  Rubya, Sabirat ^a   Yarosh, Svetlana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Online health community; Peer support; Recovery; Twelvestep fellowship; Video mediated communication

Indexed keywords

GROUPWARE; HEALTH; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RECOVERY; SURVEYS;

IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE HEALTH COMMUNITIES; ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE; PEER SUPPORT; TWELVESTEP FELLOWSHIP; VIDEO MEETING; VIDEO-MEDIATED COMMUNICATIONS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 85014742310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2998181.2998246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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