Discussing illicit drugs in public internet forums: Visibility, stigma, and pseudonymity.

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 ‘part...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barratt, Monica
Other Authors: J. Kjeldskov
Format: Conference Paper
Published: ACM 2011
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Online Access:http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2110000.2103376
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46910