Social media content analysis on twitter to explore public perceptions regarding pathological social withdrawal (hikikomori)

Hikikomori is a form of severe social withdrawal, initially described in Japan and recently reported in other countries around the world. Individuals with hikikomori shut themselves in their homes with minimal interaction with society and little participation in school or the workforce. The nature o...

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Autores: Pereira-Sánchez, V. (Víctor)|||/items/af1d13b6-cb1b-43ec-a926-7387f05a949d, Álvarez-Mon, M.Á. (Miguel Ángel)|||/items/cec48ae8-2ad9-4a1b-b572-a26dd284bac3
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Navarra
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/115582
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/115582
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Social withdrawal
Social media
Hikikomori
Twitter
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spelling Social media content analysis on twitter to explore public perceptions regarding pathological social withdrawal (hikikomori)Pereira-Sánchez, V. (Víctor)|||/items/af1d13b6-cb1b-43ec-a926-7387f05a949dÁlvarez-Mon, M.Á. (Miguel Ángel)|||/items/cec48ae8-2ad9-4a1b-b572-a26dd284bac3Social withdrawalSocial mediaHikikomoriTwitterHikikomori is a form of severe social withdrawal, initially described in Japan and recently reported in other countries around the world. Individuals with hikikomori shut themselves in their homes with minimal interaction with society and little participation in school or the workforce. The nature of hikikomori makes the individuals suffering it a hard-to-reach population. While hikikomori was described in Japan much before the ‘digital revolution’ of the 2000s, the internet, social media, and online gaming have radically changed the way people interact. This may be particularly true among hikikomori who spend much time online for entertainment or social interaction. Given this, the online world has been proposed as an accessible gateway to reach and support individuals with hikikomori. This talk will present and discuss the results of the Twitter-hikikomori international studies, conducted between 2018-2020 and led by Dr. Pereira-Sanchez, which employed social media mixed quantitative-method analyses to characterize the public conversations related to hikikomori on the social media platform Twitter in several Western languages and Japanese. As for the results, Twitter data provided evidence that hikikomori extends well beyond Japan examining, and showed that tweets in Japanese are more often are related to personal anecdotes, whereas tweets in Western languages are more often related to hikikomori as a medical issue. Apart from the results of the content analyses studies have been a proof of concept on the use of social media contents to investigate a phenomenon affecting a hard-to-reach population, which may inspire future online-based efforts to better support these populations. Disclosure No significant relationships.Cambridge University PressDadun. Depósito Académico Digital Universidad de Navarra20212021-01-0120212021-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10171/115582reponame:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarrainstname:Universidad de NavarraInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/1155822026-06-21T12:47:57Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Social media content analysis on twitter to explore public perceptions regarding pathological social withdrawal (hikikomori)
title Social media content analysis on twitter to explore public perceptions regarding pathological social withdrawal (hikikomori)
spellingShingle Social media content analysis on twitter to explore public perceptions regarding pathological social withdrawal (hikikomori)
Pereira-Sánchez, V. (Víctor)|||/items/af1d13b6-cb1b-43ec-a926-7387f05a949d
Social withdrawal
Social media
Hikikomori
Twitter
title_short Social media content analysis on twitter to explore public perceptions regarding pathological social withdrawal (hikikomori)
title_full Social media content analysis on twitter to explore public perceptions regarding pathological social withdrawal (hikikomori)
title_fullStr Social media content analysis on twitter to explore public perceptions regarding pathological social withdrawal (hikikomori)
title_full_unstemmed Social media content analysis on twitter to explore public perceptions regarding pathological social withdrawal (hikikomori)
title_sort Social media content analysis on twitter to explore public perceptions regarding pathological social withdrawal (hikikomori)
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pereira-Sánchez, V. (Víctor)|||/items/af1d13b6-cb1b-43ec-a926-7387f05a949d
Álvarez-Mon, M.Á. (Miguel Ángel)|||/items/cec48ae8-2ad9-4a1b-b572-a26dd284bac3
author Pereira-Sánchez, V. (Víctor)|||/items/af1d13b6-cb1b-43ec-a926-7387f05a949d
author_facet Pereira-Sánchez, V. (Víctor)|||/items/af1d13b6-cb1b-43ec-a926-7387f05a949d
Álvarez-Mon, M.Á. (Miguel Ángel)|||/items/cec48ae8-2ad9-4a1b-b572-a26dd284bac3
author_role author
author2 Álvarez-Mon, M.Á. (Miguel Ángel)|||/items/cec48ae8-2ad9-4a1b-b572-a26dd284bac3
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Social withdrawal
Social media
Hikikomori
Twitter
topic Social withdrawal
Social media
Hikikomori
Twitter
description Hikikomori is a form of severe social withdrawal, initially described in Japan and recently reported in other countries around the world. Individuals with hikikomori shut themselves in their homes with minimal interaction with society and little participation in school or the workforce. The nature of hikikomori makes the individuals suffering it a hard-to-reach population. While hikikomori was described in Japan much before the ‘digital revolution’ of the 2000s, the internet, social media, and online gaming have radically changed the way people interact. This may be particularly true among hikikomori who spend much time online for entertainment or social interaction. Given this, the online world has been proposed as an accessible gateway to reach and support individuals with hikikomori. This talk will present and discuss the results of the Twitter-hikikomori international studies, conducted between 2018-2020 and led by Dr. Pereira-Sanchez, which employed social media mixed quantitative-method analyses to characterize the public conversations related to hikikomori on the social media platform Twitter in several Western languages and Japanese. As for the results, Twitter data provided evidence that hikikomori extends well beyond Japan examining, and showed that tweets in Japanese are more often are related to personal anecdotes, whereas tweets in Western languages are more often related to hikikomori as a medical issue. Apart from the results of the content analyses studies have been a proof of concept on the use of social media contents to investigate a phenomenon affecting a hard-to-reach population, which may inspire future online-based efforts to better support these populations. Disclosure No significant relationships.
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