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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Science Newsline wrote about a study led by Drexel University researchers which suggests that survivors of sexual abuse who seek guidance and support in online forums may be doing so because they find comfort in the relative anonymity the forums provide, which allows them to speak candidly about their experience and be direct in asking for help. The team, which also included Oliver Haimson, a doctoral candidate at the University of California - Irvine, and Munmun De Choudhry, an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, looked at publicly available posts on the social networking/news website Reddit in three abuse-related forums, called subreddits.
Read the full article here: http://www.sciencenewsline.com/news/2016022316120005.html
