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Understanding Social Media Disclosures of Sexual Abuse Through the Lenses of Support Seeking and Anonymity

Andalibi, Nazanin, Haimson, Oliver L., De Choudhury, Munmun, Forte, Andrea·2016·Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DOI 10.1145/2858036.2858096
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Abstract

Support seeking in stigmatized contexts is useful when the discloser receives the desired response, but it also entails social risks. Thus, people do not always disclose or seek support when they need it. One such stigmatized context for support seeking is sexual abuse. In this paper, we use mixed methods to understand abuse-related posts on reddit. First, we take a qualitative approach to understand post content. Then we use quantitative methods to investigate the use of "throwaway" accounts, which provide greater anonymity, and report on factors associated with support seeking and first-time disclosures. In addition to significant linguistic differences between throwaway and identified accounts, we find that those using throwaway accounts are significantly more likely to engage in seeking support. We also find that men are significantly more likely to use throwaway accounts when posting about sexual abuse. Results suggest that subreddit moderators and members who wish to provide support pay attention to throwaway accounts, and we discuss the importance of context-specific anonymity in support seeking.

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Authors
Andalibi, N., Haimson, O. L., De Choudhury, M., & Forte, A.
Affiliations
  • Drexel University (US)
  • University of California, Irvine (US)
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
ORCID
Venue
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2016-05-07
Pages
3906-3918
DOI
10.1145/2858036.2858096
OpenAlex
W2399480376
Cited by
378
References
62
Citations by year
2026: 24 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 45 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 52 · 2020: 42 · 2019: 31 · 2018: 28 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 6
FWCI
254.82
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background (vor)
Locations
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health via Writing
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
Keywords
sexual abuse, online self-disclosure, support seeking, anonymity, Reddit, stigma, gender differences

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