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#Pragmatic or #Clinical: Analyzing TikTok Mental Health Videos

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Alice Qian Zhang,

Stevie ChancellorAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '23 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Pages 149 - 153

https://doi.org/10.1145/3584931.3607013

Published: 14 October 2023 Publication History

Abstract

As mental health content on platforms like TikTok increases steeply, it is important for us to characterize and understand how it is shared. Unfortunately, there are no precise mechanisms for identifying different types of mental health content or for users to indicate content preferences. Expanding on prior work and a qualitative typology we discovered, we present a preliminary exploration of features from 169 hand-labeled videos from a dataset of 19,000+ videos related to clinical and pragmatic mental health content. Our findings provide opportunities for future advancements in moderating mental health content and personalizing users’ interactions.

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Cited By

Armin ATrybala JYoung JRazi A(2024)Support in Short Form: Investigating TikTok Comments on Videos with #HarassmentExtended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613905.3650849(1-8)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3650849
Milton AMaestre JRoy AUmbach RChancellor S(2024)Seeking in Cycles: How Users Leverage Personal Information Ecosystems to Find Mental Health InformationProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3641894(1-16)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3641894

Index Terms

#Pragmatic or #Clinical: Analyzing TikTok Mental Health Videos
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Social media
2. Mathematics of computing
  1. Probability and statistics
    1. Statistical paradigms
      1. Exploratory data analysis

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CSCW '23 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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DOI:10.1145/3584931

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Cornell University, USA
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Armin ATrybala JYoung JRazi A(2024)Support in Short Form: Investigating TikTok Comments on Videos with #HarassmentExtended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613905.3650849(1-8)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3650849
Milton AMaestre JRoy AUmbach RChancellor S(2024)Seeking in Cycles: How Users Leverage Personal Information Ecosystems to Find Mental Health InformationProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3641894(1-16)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3641894

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