Mental Health and TikTok

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Submission Number: 190

Submission ID: 4282

Submission UUID: 62bb0a87-cb29-4be3-8085-17bc3dc26ed4

Submission URI: /form/project

Created: Sun, 01/07/2024 - 14:15

Completed: Sun, 01/07/2024 - 14:17

Changed: Wed, 09/04/2024 - 15:21

Remote IP address: 71.117.170.85

Submitted by: Gaurav Khanna

Language: English

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Project Title Mental Health and TikTok

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Project Leader Ammina Kothari

Email akothari@uri.edu

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Mentor(s) Ammina Kothari

Student-facilitator(s) Nathaniel Nichols

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Project Description Our project explores the mental health discourse on TikTok in three languages - English, Portuguese, and Arabic to examine linguistic and visual differences in how mental health-related topics are presented. The platform's popularity with children and young adults offers a unique opportunity to identify the popular accounts receiving the most engagement and the types of messages and topics highlighted across three languages. While attention on social media is difficult to measure precisely, given multiple measurements available on Twitter/X or Facebook, and Instagram to indicate engagement, TikTok's algorithm-driven content presentation based on an individual's indicated preferences and previously liked content gives a more precise understanding of what content is going viral or getting attention.

The student will learn to use various computational tools to collect TikTok videos and Video AI by Google to recognize objects, places, and actions in the videos, extract transcripts for topic modeling, and further content analysis. The student facilitator will learn how to use the URI UNITY cluster effectively for analysis and work with the research team to complete the project in a timely manner.

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Student Facilitator Programming Skill Level Some hands-on experience

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Project Institution University of Rhode Island -- Harrington School

Project Address Rhode Island

Anchor Institution CR-University of Rhode Island

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Start as soon as possible. Yes

Project Urgency Already behind3Start date is flexible

Expected Project Duration (in months) 6

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Milestone Title: Milestone #1
Milestone Description: determine project scope, HPC access, launch presentation, set up project on github.
Completion Date Goal: 2024-01-15
Milestone Title: Milestone #2
Milestone Description: organize data set, and finalize relational database schema.
Completion Date Goal: 2024-02-15
Milestone Title: Milestone #3
Milestone Description: complete data analysis
Completion Date Goal: 2024-05-15
Milestone Title: Milestone #4
Milestone Description: wrap up project, update project git and documentation, wrap presentation.
Completion Date Goal: 2024-07-15

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