Submission Number: 202
Submission ID: 5273
Submission UUID: ad48b448-73bc-460b-b09f-2b2b3a1d2c86
Submission URI: /form/project

Created: Wed, 04/30/2025 - 05:26
Completed: Wed, 04/30/2025 - 05:26
Changed: Wed, 06/04/2025 - 15:25

Remote IP address: 104.28.39.38
Submitted by: Gaurav Khanna
Language: English

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Webform: Project
Project Title A Multimodal Analysis of Embedded Climate Change Media on Twitter
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Tags ai (271), AI/ML (802)
Status Complete
Project Leader Suhong Li
Email sli@bryant.edu
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Student-facilitator(s) Jacob Dauphinais
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Project Description This project seeks to analyze video and image elements of Twitter/X posts in their association to climate change. The focus is on data pipeline to create textual descriptions using Large Language Models. More specifically the objectives are:

-Develop a methodology for video and image processing using open-source LLMs
-Test multiple open-source LLMs for effectiveness in analyzing visual media
-Perform and use sentiment and topic analysis on extracted visual content
-View potential differences/similarities between text-focused and visual media focused climate change posts

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Student Facilitator Programming Skill Level Some hands-on experience
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Project Institution Bryant University
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Anchor Institution CR-University of Rhode Island
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