We Feel – your emotional posts provide insights into the mental health of Australia

By March 13th, 2019

We Feel is a project that explores whether social media - specifically Twitter - can provide an accurate, real-time signal of the world's emotional state.

Having access to real-time data is of enormous benefit to mental health researchers.

This new information from We Feel will be compared to existing literature to see how social media can be used to contribute to the real-time tracking of mental health in Australia.

This project has provided a prototype tool to support Black Dog Institute researchers to gather evidence on the role of social media in the development of more effective public health campaigns as well as the evaluation of existing campaigns.