{"title":"#AutismAwareness","authors":"Safa Quadri, Naveena Karusala, R. Arriaga","doi":"10.1145/3297121.3297128","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"It is well established that there are differences in autism awareness and stigma around the world. We investigate how this is manifested in Twitter data. First, we compared tweeting behavior during World Autism Day between users from the United States (US) and India over a 4-year period. We investigated how tweeting may be related to stigma by comparing the likelihood that users in India tweet about autism compared to two other public health issues that carry comparatively more and less stigma (AIDS and tobacco cessation, respectively). We found that users from India are significantly less likely to tweet about autism compared to users from the US. This is also true for AIDS. On the other hand, users in India tweet more about tobacco cessation than those in the US. We discuss our results in light of issues related to awareness and stigma. We conclude by providing design implications for creating effective autism Twitter campaigns.","PeriodicalId":114974,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th Indian Conference on Human Computer Interaction","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 9th Indian Conference on Human Computer Interaction","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3297121.3297128","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
It is well established that there are differences in autism awareness and stigma around the world. We investigate how this is manifested in Twitter data. First, we compared tweeting behavior during World Autism Day between users from the United States (US) and India over a 4-year period. We investigated how tweeting may be related to stigma by comparing the likelihood that users in India tweet about autism compared to two other public health issues that carry comparatively more and less stigma (AIDS and tobacco cessation, respectively). We found that users from India are significantly less likely to tweet about autism compared to users from the US. This is also true for AIDS. On the other hand, users in India tweet more about tobacco cessation than those in the US. We discuss our results in light of issues related to awareness and stigma. We conclude by providing design implications for creating effective autism Twitter campaigns.
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