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Helping Hands of Autism Blogger Community in Social Media Platforms

Authors:
Amit Saha
Nitin Agarwal

Keywords: Autism; ASD; Social Support; Twitter; Blogger; Community

Abstract:
With a high prevalence of autism among children, there is a shortage of autism support facilities around the world. Families dealing with autism use online social media to share experiences with other members of the community. Systematic analysis of the vast interaction between autism community members in blogs and Twitter can be used to build a learning tool for others who are dealing with autism. The study found that the autism blogger community provides substantial social support to other community members. Differences across various groups (autistic bloggers, mother bloggers with autistic kids, father bloggers with autistic children, and autism support group blogs) and different social media platforms (blogs and Twitter) were reviewed in context of social support. We found that the families dealing with autism have a better quality of life when facilitated with social support by community members.

Pages: 78 to 81

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: November 15, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-443-5

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 15, 2015 to November 20, 2015