Name: CHEN Yating Area of study: Discourse Analysis.
Brief background. What is going on here on ‘Zoufan’? Depression as a fatal cause The social phenomenon of ‘Zoufan’, a Weibo account whose owner committed suicide in 2012 due to depression but attracted a tremendous following since then A live community with “regular members” confiding their depressive experience, commiserating and finding consolation with each other..
Research objectives. Overarching objective: t o explore the associations between online community, narratives of depression and identity.
Research significances. 01. To help people involved to have a more nuanced recognition and understanding of more concealed psychological and sociocultural factors leading to depression.
Research Methodology. Python was used to crawl the comments under the last post of ‘Zoufan’ Top 20 user IDs who were the most active during August 2020 to January 2021.
Thank you. 30 Oct 2021. My Email Address: 17220794@ siswa.um.edu.my.