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Do LGBTQ-related Events Drive Individual Online Disclosure Decisions?

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  • Cisternino, Irissa
  • Jones, Jason J.

    (Stony Brook University)

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When and how to come out are difficult choices. In this research project, we examine one form of disclosure: the addition of an LGBTQ keyword to one's online social media profile. We construct daily time series of the prevalence of American Twitter users whose self-descriptions contain LGBTQ keywords. Further, we construct daily time series of inferred add and delete events - i.e. we make best estimates for how many users per day make an edit to include a previously absent word or remove a word previously present. These we compare to relevant annual and one-time events such as LGBTQ Pride Month and the date of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. We confirm one pre-registered hypothesis and explore several others.

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  • Cisternino, Irissa & Jones, Jason J., 2020. "Do LGBTQ-related Events Drive Individual Online Disclosure Decisions?," SocArXiv 8yjcm, Center for Open Science.
  • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:8yjcm
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/8yjcm
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