We analyze 1,888 articles and 1,119,453 vaping posts to study how vaping is framed across multiple knowledge dissemination platforms (Wikipedia, Quora, Medium, Reddit, Stack Exchange, wikiHow). We use various NLP techniques to understand these differences. For example, n-grams, emotion recognition, and question answering results indicate that Medium, Quora, and Stack Exchange are appropriate venues for those looking to transition from smoking to vaping. Other platforms (Reddit, wikiHow) are more for vaping hobbyists and may not sufficiently dissuade youth vaping. Conversely, Wikipedia may exaggerate vaping harms, dissuading smokers from transitioning. A strength of our work is how the different techniques we have applied validate each other. Based on our results, we provide several recommendations. Stakeholders may utilize our findings to design informational tools to reinforce or mitigate vaping (mis)perceptions online.
@article{arxiv.2206.10594,
title = {How is Vaping Framed on Online Knowledge Dissemination Platforms?},
author = {Keyu Chen and Yiwen Shi and Jun Luo and Joyce Jiang and Shweta Yadav and Munmun De Choudhury and Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh and Marzieh Babaeianjelodar and Frederick Altice and Navin Kumar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10594},
year = {2022}
}
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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2206.07765, arXiv:2206.09024