The University of Michigan - Flint was awarded a $175,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct research on how the framing of news stories changes as they are shared on social media. The goal of the project is to develop new datasets and AI models to better understand how online users reframe current event stories and the potential impacts. Key activities include training student researchers to label news stories and social media posts based on factors like sentiment and issues, building AI models to analyze a larger dataset of articles and posts, and exploring how AI-generated posts with different framings may influence how people understand events. This research has the potential to help social media users think more critically about online content and its framing. The grant period runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026.
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