Detection of bots in social media: a systematic review

M Orabi, D Mouheb, Z Al Aghbari, I Kamel - Information Processing & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Social media bots (automated accounts) attacks are organized crimes that pose potential
threats to public opinion, democracy, public health, stock market and other disciplines. While …

The role of online social networking on deliberate self-harm and suicidality in adolescents: A systematized review of literature

AM Memon, SG Sharma, SS Mohite… - Indian journal of …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Social media use by minors has significantly increased and has been linked to depression
and suicidality. Simultaneously, age-adjusted suicide rates have steadily increased over the …

Human–AI collaboration enables more empathic conversations in text-based peer-to-peer mental health support

A Sharma, IW Lin, AS Miner, DC Atkins… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling systems that augment and collaborate
with humans to perform simple, mechanistic tasks such as scheduling meetings and …

Ethics of the attention economy: The problem of social media addiction

VR Bhargava, M Velasquez - Business Ethics Quarterly, 2021 - cambridge.org
Social media companies commonly design their platforms in a way that renders them
addictive. Some governments have declared internet addiction a major public health …

Global lifetime and 12-month prevalence of suicidal behavior, deliberate self-harm and non-suicidal self-injury in children and adolescents between 1989 and 2018: a …

KS Lim, CH Wong, RS McIntyre, J Wang… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Objective: This meta-analysis aimed to estimate the global lifetime and 12-month prevalence
of suicidal behavior, deliberate self-harm and non-suicidal self-injury in children and …

Applying the uses and gratifications theory to identify motivational factors behind young adult's participation in viral social media challenges on TikTok

G Falgoust, E Winterlind, P Moon, A Parker… - Human Factors in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Social media usage can impact its users' mental and physical health. In particular, social
media challenges, activities performed by an individual or a group that are uploaded to a …

Weaponized health communication: Twitter bots and Russian trolls amplify the vaccine debate

DA Broniatowski, AM Jamison… - … journal of public …, 2018 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To understand how Twitter bots and trolls (“bots”) promote online health content.
Methods. We compared bots' to average users' rates of vaccine-relevant messages, which …

Towards facilitating empathic conversations in online mental health support: A reinforcement learning approach

A Sharma, IW Lin, AS Miner, DC Atkins… - Proceedings of the Web …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Online peer-to-peer support platforms enable conversations between millions of people who
seek and provide mental health support. If successful, web-based mental health …

Use of multiple social media platforms and symptoms of depression and anxiety: A nationally-representative study among US young adults

BA Primack, A Shensa, CG Escobar-Viera… - Computers in human …, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction While increased time spent on social media (TSSM) has been associated with
depression and anxiety, the independent role of using multiple social media (SM) platforms …

Discovering shifts to suicidal ideation from mental health content in social media

M De Choudhury, E Kiciman, M Dredze… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
History of mental illness is a major factor behind suicide risk and ideation. However research
efforts toward characterizing and forecasting this risk is limited due to the paucity of …