Characterizing homelessness discourse on social media

Andrea Hu; Stevie Chancellor; Munmun De Choudhury

doi:10.1145/3290607.3313057

Characterizing homelessness discourse on social media

Andrea Hu, Stevie Chancellor, Munmun De Choudhury

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Abstract

Social media allows us to connect and maintain relationships in spite of physical distance and barriers; as computers and the internet become more accessible, hard-to-reach populations are finding a voice on these platforms. One such group is those who are or have been homeless. Through a computational linguistic analysis of a large corpus of Tumblr blog posts, this paper provides preliminary insights to understand the unique ways homeless bloggers express their needs, frustrations and financial/social distress, connect with others, and seek emotional and practical support from others. We highlight future investigations, building upon this research, that can be pursued in HCI to assist an underserved population with the difficult life experience of homelessness.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450359719
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3313057
State	Published - May 2 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2019 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: May 4 2019 → May 9 2019

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	5/4/19 → 5/9/19

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Keywords

Hard to research populations
Homelessness
Language analysis
Social media
Tumblr

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Characterizing homelessness discourse on social media. / Hu, Andrea; Chancellor, Stevie; De Choudhury, Munmun.
CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. 3313057 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Hu, A, Chancellor, S & De Choudhury, M 2019, Characterizing homelessness discourse on social media. in CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 3313057, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 5/4/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3313057

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