Characterizing Anti-Vaping Posts for Effective Communication on Instagram Using Multimodal Deep Learning
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Characterizing Anti-Vaping Posts for Effective Communication on Instagram Using Multimodal Deep Learning
Abstract
Introduction: Instagram is a popular social networking platform for sharing photos with a large proportion of youth and young adult users. We aim to identify key features in anti-vaping Instagram image posts associated with high social media user engagement by artificial intelligence.
Aims and methods: We collected 8972 anti-vaping Instagram image posts and hand-coded 2200 Instagram images to identify nine image features such as warning signs and person-shown vaping. We utilized a deep-learning model, the OpenAI: contrastive language-image pre-training with ViT-B/32 as the backbone and a 5-fold cross-validation model evaluation, to extract similar features from the Instagram image and further trained logistic regression models for multilabel classification. Latent Dirichlet Allocation model and Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner were used to extract the topics and sentiment from the captions. Negative binomial regression models were applied to identify features associated with the likes and comments count of posts.
Results: Several features identified in anti-vaping Instagram image posts were significantly associated with high social media user engagement (likes or comments), such as educational warnings and warning signs. Instagram posts with captions about health risks associated with vaping received significantly more likes or comments than those about help quitting smoking or vaping. Compared to the model based on 2200 hand-coded Instagram image posts, more significant features have been identified from 8972 AI-labeled Instagram image posts.
Conclusion: Features identified from anti-vaping Instagram image posts will provide a potentially effective way to communicate with the public about the health effects of e-cigarette use.
Implications: Considering the increasing popularity of social media and the current vaping epidemic, especially among youth and young adults, it becomes necessary to understand e-cigarette-related content on social media. Although pro-vaping messages dominate social media, anti-vaping messages are limited and often have low user engagement. Using advanced deep-learning and statistical models, we identified several features in anti-vaping Instagram image posts significantly associated with high user engagement. Our findings provide a potential approach to effectively communicate with the public about the health risks of vaping to protect public health.
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