TY - GEN
T1 - A study of reddit-user's response to rape
AU - Kamarudin, Nur Shazwani
AU - Rakesh, Vineeth
AU - Beigi, Ghazaleh
AU - Manikouda, Lydia
AU - Liu, Huan
N1 - Funding Information: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work, in part, is supported by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia and University Malaysia Pahang (UMP). Publisher Copyright: © 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/10/24
Y1 - 2018/10/24
N2 - The growth of social media has created an open web where people freely share their opinion and even discuss sensitive subjects in online forums. Forums such as Reddit help support seekers by serving as a portal for open discussions for various stigmatized subjects such as rape. This paper investigates the potential roles of online forums and if such forums provide intended resources to the people who seek support. Specifically, the open nature of forums allows us to study how online users respond to seeker's queries or needs; through their response, we attempt to assess the range of topics covered by responders in regards to the issues, concerns and, obstacles faced by the victims of rape and sexual abuse, using rape-related posts from Reddit. We employ natural language processing techniques to extract topics of responses, examine how diverse these topics are to answer research questions such as whether responses are limited to emotional support; if not, what other topics are; what the diversity of topics manifests; and how online response differs from traditional response found in a physical world.
AB - The growth of social media has created an open web where people freely share their opinion and even discuss sensitive subjects in online forums. Forums such as Reddit help support seekers by serving as a portal for open discussions for various stigmatized subjects such as rape. This paper investigates the potential roles of online forums and if such forums provide intended resources to the people who seek support. Specifically, the open nature of forums allows us to study how online users respond to seeker's queries or needs; through their response, we attempt to assess the range of topics covered by responders in regards to the issues, concerns and, obstacles faced by the victims of rape and sexual abuse, using rape-related posts from Reddit. We employ natural language processing techniques to extract topics of responses, examine how diverse these topics are to answer research questions such as whether responses are limited to emotional support; if not, what other topics are; what the diversity of topics manifests; and how online response differs from traditional response found in a physical world.
KW - Reddit
KW - linguistic behavior
KW - online forum
KW - rape
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U2 - 10.1109/ASONAM.2018.8508855
DO - 10.1109/ASONAM.2018.8508855
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2018
SP - 591
EP - 592
BT - Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2018
A2 - Tagarelli, Andrea
A2 - Reddy, Chandan
A2 - Brandes, Ulrik
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2018
Y2 - 28 August 2018 through 31 August 2018
ER -