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"I'm gonna KMS": From Imminent Risk to Youth Joking about Suicide and Self-Harm via Social Media
CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp 1-18
11 May 2024
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Abstract
Recent increases in self-harm and suicide rates among youth have coincided with prevalent social media use; therefore, making these sensitive topics of critical importance to the HCI research community. We analyzed 1,224 direct message conversations (DMs) from 151 young Instagram users (ages 13-21), who engaged in private conversations using self-harm and suicide-related language. We found that youth discussed their personal experiences, including imminent thoughts of suicide and/or self-harm, as well as their past attempts and recovery. They gossiped about others, including complaining about triggering content and coercive threats of self-harm and suicide but also tried to intervene when a friend was in danger. Most of the conversations involved suicide or self-harm language that did not indicate the intent to harm but instead used hyperbolical language or humor. Our results shed light on youth perceptions, norms, and experiences of self-harm and suicide to inform future efforts towards risk detection and prevention.
Content Warning: This paper discusses the sensitive topics of self-harm and suicide. Reader discretion is advised.
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- Title
- "I'm gonna KMS": From Imminent Risk to Youth Joking about Suicide and Self-Harm via Social Media
- Creators
- Afsaneh Razi (Corresponding Author) - Drexel University, Information ScienceNaima Samreen Ali - Vanderbilt UniversitySarvech Qadir - Vanderbilt UniversityAshwaq Alsoubai - Vanderbilt UniversityMunmun De Choudhury - Georgia Institute of TechnologyPamela J. Wisniewski - Vanderbilt University
- Publication Details
- CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp 1-18
- Conference
- CHI '24: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Honolulu, HI, USA, 11 May 2024–16 May 2024)
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Number of pages
- 18
- Grant note
- U.S. National Science Foundation: IIP-2329976, IIS-2333207 William T. Grant Foundation: 187941
This research was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grants IIP-2329976, IIS-2333207, and by the William T. Grant Foundation grant 187941. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of our sponsors.
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001259864901044
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85194840240
- Other Identifier
- 991021874715104721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Science, Information Systems
- Computer Science, Theory & Methods