Online gambling forums as a potential target for harm reduction: an exploratory natural language processing analysis of a reddit.com forum.

Journal: Harm reduction journal
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Globally, there has been a rapid increase in the availability of online gambling. As online gambling has increased in popularity, there has been a corresponding increase in online communities that discuss gambling. The movement of gambling and communities interested in gambling to online spaces presents new challenges to harm reduction. The current study analyses a forum from a popular online forum hosting website (reddit.com) to determine its suitability as a source for data to inform gambling harm reduction in online spaces.

Authors

  • Mark van der Maas
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA. mark.vandermaas@rutgers.edu.
  • Jim Samuel
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.