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“I’m Not an Alcoholic, I’m Australian”: An Exploration of Alcohol Discourse in Facebook Groups

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Social Informatics (SocInfo 2011)

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This paper discusses alcohol discourse characteristics in alcohol related Facebook groups, through a discourse analysis of their wall posts and discussion sections. We created an analytical framework to analyse the content. Our findings on alcohol culture and binge drinking were similar to that stated in existing literature. This study raises important questions about how online discussions on alcohol are creating unhealthy online drinking communities, and how this impacts actual drinking patterns.

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  1. La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Sarah Posner & Dennis Wollersheim

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  1. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Block N4, Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

    Anwitaman Datta

  2. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Thompson Hall, 200 Hicks Way, 01003, Amherst, MA, USA

    Stuart Shulman

  3. Singapore Management University, Singapore

    Baihua Zheng

  4. Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University,, Roosevelt Rd., 10617, Taipei, Taiwan

    Shou-De Lin

  5. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Block N4, Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

    Aixin Sun

  6. School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Rd, 178902, Singapore

    Ee-Peng Lim

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Posner, S., Wollersheim, D. (2011). “I’m Not an Alcoholic, I’m Australian”: An Exploration of Alcohol Discourse in Facebook Groups. In: Datta, A., Shulman, S., Zheng, B., Lin, SD., Sun, A., Lim, EP. (eds) Social Informatics. SocInfo 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6984. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24704-0_32

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