Title:
The Language of Minority Stress Experiences of Sexual Minority Communities on Reddit

dc.contributor.advisor De Choudhury, Munmun
dc.contributor.author Kim, Sang-Chan
dc.contributor.department Computer Science
dc.date.accessioned 2019-05-30T16:23:54Z
dc.date.available 2019-05-30T16:23:54Z
dc.date.created 2019-05
dc.date.issued 2019-05
dc.date.submitted May 2019
dc.date.updated 2019-05-30T16:23:54Z
dc.description.abstract Prior literature indicates members of sexual minorities face higher risk of mental health challenges than their counterparts. These individuals are often more predisposed to disorders such as drug addiction, anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. Online communities and social media provide a space for individuals to seek support, find peers, and disclose their thoughts and emotions. Using posts from the r/lgbt community on Reddit, we employ social media analysis and machine learning to examine and quantify the language of minority stress. Drawing from existing minority stress theory, we develop a codebook to identify minority stress in social media posts. Using a dataset annotated with the codebook, we train a machine learning classifier to predict posts with minority stress. Lastly, we analyze the linguistic cues of these newly machine-labelled posts, build a lexicon of minority stress markers, and relate our findings back to minority stress theory.
dc.description.degree Undergraduate
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/61387
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject Mental health
dc.subject Social media
dc.subject Minority stress
dc.subject reddit
dc.subject LGBTQ
dc.title The Language of Minority Stress Experiences of Sexual Minority Communities on Reddit
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dc.type.genre Undergraduate Thesis
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local.contributor.corporatename School of Computer Science
local.contributor.corporatename Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
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