AI and Journalism: Opportunities and Challenges

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).

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Special Issue Editors

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The introduction of new technologies in newsrooms has always prompted queries about potential effects on the journalism tradition—its content, means of production, and its consumption—nonetheless, the application of AI can been seen as a disruptive change.

Artificial intelligence is acquiring a growing presence in the different news-making phases: from news detection, news writing, and production, to news distribution.

In particular, AI algorithms, using the vast body of knowledge of linguistics and natural language, are able to convert data into readable stories, without human involvement.

This process of automatic news generation has sparked numerous debates between “legacy” journalists that are afraid of losing their job and “technological” journalists that understand the robot-help as a way to avoid mechanical and boring tasks.

In the same way, algorithmic news personalization on the one hand helps users choose the most suitable information within the mare magnum of infoxication, on the other it can lead to the generation of echo chambers and filter bubbles.

However, these are only a few issues that this technological innovation is introducing.

This Special Issue aims to address how the integration of AI with journalism may lead to dramatic changes, from different perspectives.

We especially invite submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics:

  • Artificial intelligence and journalism;
  • Case studies of the application of artificial intelligence in the newsroom;
  • Automatic news generation;
  • News personalization;
  • The dark side of artificial intelligence: filter bubbles and echo chambers;
  • Robot journalism;
  • Ethical issues;
  • Artificial intelligence to combat fake news and misinformation.

Dr. Santiago Tejedor Calvo
Dr. Laura Cervi
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Journalism
  • Innovation
  • Robot journalism
  • News making
  • Newsroom

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Vox Populi? Trump’s Twitter Page as Public Forum
by Carles Roca-Cuberes and Alyssa Young
Soc. Sci. 2020, 9(12), 226; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci9120226 - 10 Dec 2020
Cited by 3 | Viewed by 3733
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This article investigates Twitter replies to tweets concerning the Russia Investigation, published by the United States President, Donald J. Trump. Using a qualitative content analysis, we examine a sample of 200 tweet replies within the timeframe of the first 16 months of Trump’s [...] Read more.
This article investigates Twitter replies to tweets concerning the Russia Investigation, published by the United States President, Donald J. Trump. Using a qualitative content analysis, we examine a sample of 200 tweet replies within the timeframe of the first 16 months of Trump’s presidency to explore the arguments made in favor or not in favor of Trump in the comment replies. The results show more anti-Trump than pro-Trump rhetoric in the Twitter replies; the ratio of comments displaying support for Trump or his innocence does not even reach 10%. This study concludes that Trump’s tweets do not inform his Twitter audience’s opinion on this matter, and that Trump’s repetition of catchphrases on the Russia Investigation did not have a measurable impact on his Twitter audience’s responses. Full article
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