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Artificial Intelligence and Journalism in Four African Countries: Optimists, Pessimists, and Pragmatists
Journalism Practice, volume 19, issue 10 (2025), pp. 2249–2265
"This study examines how journalists in four African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa) perceive and utilise AI tools in news production. The study draws on “imagined affordance” as a theoretical framework and semi-structured interviews with journalists in the four countries. Th
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Fact-Checkers as New Journalistic Mediators: News Agencies’ Verification Units and Platform Dynamics
Media and Communication, volume 13 (2025), 24 pp.
"This article examines how European international news agencies—Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa), and EFE—engage with the emerging subgenre of external fact-checking journalism in response to (dysfunctional) hybrid media systems. Through a content analysis of 86
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How Strategic Information Operations Affect Peacekeeping: Two Case Studies from the Central African Republic
International Peacekeeping, volume 32, issue 3 (2025), pp. 414-456
"Strategic information operations – efforts by individuals or groups to shape public opinion using propaganda, rumors and facts – pose significant challenges to peacekeeping missions. These operations undermine trust, hinder communication with the public and complicate the implementation of peac
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Examining How Fact-checking Hubs Counter Information Disorder in Africa
Komunikator, volume 17, issue 1 (2025), pp. 52–62
“As fake news, misinformation, and communication disorders continue to raise societal concerns, several countermeasures are emerging to combat this growing challenge. This study examines the role of social media in the spread of information disorder in Africa and evaluates how effectively three pr
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Reconceptualizing Gatekeeping in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Theoretical Exploration of Artificial Intelligence-Driven News Curation and Automated Journalism
Journalism and Media, volume 6, issue 2 (2025), pp. 1-19
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how news is produced, curated, and consumed, challenging traditional gatekeeping theories rooted in human editorial control. We develop a robust theoretical framework to reconceptualize gatekeeping in the AI era. We integrate classic media theories—gat
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"Algorithms today are more complex than ever. With the rise of large language models (LLMs), they have become increasingly unexplainable and non-deterministic. Even experts often fail to understand why an algorithm yields a particular outcome. It is through the datasets used to train those algorithm
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Artificial Intelligence in Newsrooms: Case Study on Al-Mamlaka TV
Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication, volume 41, issue 1 (2025), pp. 35–51
"The reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) in newsrooms has become increasingly common worldwide. This technology is used to enhance the efficiency of news gathering, editing, and distribution. Despite the numerous benefits that can be gained from these technologies, they also create many profess
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Fake news, election-related disinformation laws, and citizens’ rights in African political ecology
Journal of African Elections, volume 24, issue 1 (2025), pp. 1-25
“This article builds on innovative methodologies that social scientists employ to interrogate election-related disinformation. The paper analyses the roles of regulatory bodies, law enforcement agencies, and technology platforms in halting the spread of disinformation, stressing how these entities
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Political Campaign Responses to Information Disorder: A Case Study of the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Elections
The International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 31, issue 3 (2025), pp. 595–615
"During the 2023 Nigerian presidential campaign, a variety of political, ethnic, and religious tensions contributed to a significant spike in false and misleading information. To navigate this complex information ecosystem, campaigns set up media units to, in varying degrees, produce disinformation
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AI in the Newsroom: Lessons from the Adoption of The Globe and Mail's Sophi
Journalism Practice, volume 19, issue 10 (2025), pp. 2323-2340
"This case study examines the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and journalistic values through an analysis of Sophi, an algorithmic recommendation engine developed by The Globe and Mail in Canada. As AI becomes more prevalent in newsrooms, there are debates ranging from concerns abo
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Generative AI in African News Media: Opportunities and Challenges
Routledge (2025), xix, 190 pp.
"Featuring diverse case studies from South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Eswatini, the collection explores how African newsrooms are adopting generative AI. Contributors analyse the use of AI presenters, audience perceptions of AI-generated content, gamification strategies in newsroo
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Guiding the way: a comprehensive examination of AI guidelines in global media
AI & Society, volume 40, issue 4 (2025), pp. 2585–2603
"With the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the news industry, media organizations have begun publishing guidelines that aim to promote the responsible, ethical, and unbiased implementation of AI-based technologies. These guidelines are expected to serve journalists
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SpinozAI: Augmenting Journalism with Innovation and Ethics
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2025), 15 pp.
"The Spinoza project aims to develop an open-source AI tool that ensures the integrity, traceability, and ownership of its data. It is co-designed with journalists and publishers and its first prototype focuses on climate change issues. The initial concept was launched by Reporters Without Borders (
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AI-Driven Disinformation and Political Influence on WhatsApp in South Africa’s 2024 Elections
The International Journal of Press/Politics (2025), 20 pp.
"This study investigates the role of encrypted messaging apps, specifically WhatsApp, in disseminating political disinformation during South Africa’s 2024 general elections. Drawing on a dataset of 22,384 messages from 47 politically active WhatsApp groups and 6,283 unique users, the study identif
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Policies in Parallel? A Comparative Study of Journalistic AI Policies in 52 Global News Organisations
Digital Journalism, volume 13, issue 9 (2025), pp. 1578–1598
"A growing number of news organisations have set up guidelines to govern how they use artificial intelligence (AI). This article analyses a set of 52 guidelines, mainly from Western Europe and North America, from publishers in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Norway
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Unravelling the web: exploring the dynamics of online disinformation and its impact on democracy in Africa
Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, volume 59, issue 2 (2025), pp. 333–359
"The article looks at the influence of social media disinformation campaigns on voter behaviour in the national elections in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in the period 2017–2023. By examining the various communication efforts, propaganda and political marketing, the article shows how the digita
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A Companion to Digital Ethics
Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons Ltd Wiley-Blackwell, 1st (2025), 352 pp.
"This multidisciplinary reference work examines ethical challenges arising from digital technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, data use, online platforms and digital governance. Its relevance to COMMBOX lies especially in chapters on AI ethical principles, fairness and transparency, exp
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Artificial Intelligence and Journalism: A Systematic Bibliometric and Thematic Analysis of Global Research
Computers in Human Behavior Reports, volume 20 (2025), 21 pp.
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping journalistic practices across the globe, offering new opportunities while raising ethical, professional, and societal concerns. This study presents a comprehensive, second-generation systematic review of published articles on AI in journalism from 2010 to 2
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Journalists’ Perception of Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Nigerian Newsrooms
Digital Journalism, volume 14, issue 5 (2025), pp. 751–770
"Technological advancements have always influenced how news is sourced, produced, and disseminated. Typically, the Global North leads in adopting such technologies, resulting in unequal technological diffusion and research between the Global North and South. This research takes a less-traveled path
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“We Are All Migrants”: Ideological Construction of Xenophobia in Nigerian and South African Newspaper Reports
African Journalism Studies, volume 46, issue 3 (2025), pp. 258-274
“Fear and animosity towards asylum seekers and migrants have experienced a worldwide increase in recent decades, with xenophobia being the recent particular experience in South Africa. This study analyses how discursive strategies in Nigerian and South African newspaper reports ideologically frame
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