How Communities Process Layoffs: Appraisal, Coping, and Emotional Mediation on RedditWe investigate how mental-health signals are expressed and co-constructed in online discourse during corporate layoffs.
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10.1145/3800935.3830872
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979-8-4007-2564-7
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How Communities Process Layoffs: Appraisal, Coping, and Emotional Mediation on Reddit
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800935.3830872
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Aparup Khatua
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830872
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CC BY 4.0
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We investigate how mental-health signals are expressed and co-constructed in online discourse during corporate layoffs.
keywords
Layoffs; Online Discourse; Stress Appraisal Theory; Reddit
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2026-09-14
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HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3800935.3830872
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CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Social media ;
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Aparup Khatua
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3800935
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2026-09-14
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ACM Reference Format: Aparup Khatua. 2026. How Communities Process Layoffs: Appraisal, Coping, and Emotional Mediation on Reddit. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 7 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830872