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Clinical Informatics (2266) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (2677) Digital Mental Health Interventions, e-Mental Health and Cyberpsychology (3207) Natural Language Processing (1280) Depression and Mood Disorders; Suicide Prevention (2459) Methods and New Tools in Mental Health Research (907) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1408)

Published on in Vol 28 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/95023, first published .
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Naturalistic Online Language as a Marker of Depression in Midlife and Older Adults: Computational Text Analysis of Bluesky and Reddit Posts

Naturalistic Online Language as a Marker of Depression in Midlife and Older Adults: Computational Text Analysis of Bluesky and Reddit Posts

Authors of this article:

Lauren Rutter1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Andy Edinger3 Author Orcid Image ;   Marijn ten Thij4 Author Orcid Image ;   Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces1 Author Orcid Image ;   Danny Valdez5 Author Orcid Image ;   Johan Bollen6, 7 Author Orcid Image
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Lauren Rutter   1, 2 , PhD ;   Andy Edinger   3 , MS ;   Marijn ten Thij   4 , PhD ;   Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces   1 , PhD ;   Danny Valdez   5 , PhD ;   Johan Bollen   6, 7 , PhD

1 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States

2 Indiana Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States

3 Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

4 Department of Intelligent Systems, Tilburg University, Tilburg, North Brabant, The Netherlands

5 Department of Applied Health Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

6 Informatics Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands

7 Department of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering , Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, IN, United States

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  • Lauren Rutter, PhD
  • Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
  • Indiana University
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  • Email: larutter@iu.edu