Title
Responding to Sensitive Disclosures on Social Media: A Decision-Making Framework.
Abstract
When people disclose information on social media that is sensitive or potentially stigmatized (e.g., mental illness, pregnancy loss), how do others decide to respond? We use interviews and vignettes to provide a response decision-making framework (RDM) that explains factors informing whether and how individuals respond to sensitive disclosures from their social media connections. The RDM framework includes factors related to the self, poster, and disclosure context (i.e., relational, temporal, social). Our findings include how people's decisions are complicated by balancing their own needs (e.g., privacy, wellbeing) as well as the posters’ (e.g., support) when seeing what they consider sensitive posts on social media. We identify empirically grounded insights and information that social media designs could surface to support both potential disclosers and responders. We argue that social media sites should provide privacy controls for both disclosers and responders, and facilitate the visibility of network-level support.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3241044
ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Self-disclosure, decision making, miscarriage, pregnancy loss, reproductive health, response, social media, social support, stigma, support provision
Social psychology,Social media,Computer science,Reproductive health,Mental illness,RDM,Human–computer interaction,Self,Self-disclosure,Social support,Stigma (botany)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
6
1073-0516
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.41
30
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nazanin Andalibi112516.28
Andrea Forte249646.30