Stigmatizing Attitudes Across Cybersuicides and Offline Suicides: Content Analysis of Sina Weibo.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The new reality of cybersuicide raises challenges to ideologies about the traditional form of suicide that does not involve the internet (offline suicide), which may lead to changes in audience's attitudes. However, knowledge on whether stigmatizing attitudes differ between cybersuicides and offline suicides remains limited.

Objective

This study aims to consider livestreamed suicide as a typical representative of cybersuicide and use social media data (Sina Weibo) to investigate the differences in stigmatizing attitudes across cybersuicides and offline suicides in terms of attitude types and linguistic characteristics.

Methods

A total of 4393 cybersuicide-related and 2843 offline suicide-related Weibo posts were collected and analyzed. First, human coders w

SUBMITTER: Li A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9034432 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature