Discussing illicit drugs in public internet forums: Visibility, stigma, and pseudonymity.
| dc.contributor.author | Barratt, Monica | |
| dc.contributor.editor | J. Kjeldskov | |
| dc.contributor.editor | J. Paay | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T15:29:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T15:29:57Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2012-02-16T20:00:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Barratt, Monica. 2011. Discussing illicit drugs in public internet forums: Visibility, stigma, and pseudonymity, in Kjeldskov, J. and Paay, J (ed), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Jun 29 2011, pp. 159-168. Brisbane: Association for Computing Machinery. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46910 | |
| dc.description.abstract |
It has been claimed that people discuss their own illicit drug use online because anonymity allows them to avoid the legal and social risks of identifying themselves as drug users. Discourses around the risks, strategies and management of online drug discussion were produced by interviewing 26 ‘party drug’ users who reported participating in internet forums where drugs were discussed. Three factors influenced the extent to which drug forum users discussed their own drug use in public internet forums: perceived visibility, perceived legal risk and social stigma, and perceived effectiveness of pseudonymity. Implications for internet research with drug users are discussed. | |
| dc.publisher | ACM | |
| dc.relation.uri | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2110000.2103376 | |
| dc.subject | Internet forums | |
| dc.subject | social identity | |
| dc.subject | stigma | |
| dc.subject | illicit drugs | |
| dc.subject | pseudonymity | |
| dc.subject | anonymity | |
| dc.subject | online interviews | |
| dc.subject | normalisation | |
| dc.title | Discussing illicit drugs in public internet forums: Visibility, stigma, and pseudonymity. | |
| dc.type | Conference Paper | |
| dcterms.source.startPage | 159 | |
| dcterms.source.endPage | 168 | |
| dcterms.source.title | C&T '11. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Communities and Technologies | |
| dcterms.source.series | C&T '11. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Communities and Technologies | |
| dcterms.source.isbn | 978-1-4503-0824-3 | |
| dcterms.source.conference | Fifth International Conference on Communities and Technologies | |
| dcterms.source.conference-start-date | Jun 29 2011 | |
| dcterms.source.conferencelocation | Brisbane | |
| dcterms.source.place | New York, NY | |
| curtin.department | National Drug Research Institute (Research Institute) | |
| curtin.accessStatus | Fulltext not available |