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Reporting on Artificial Intelligence: A Handbook for Journalism Educators
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 133 pp.
"[...] While many AI deployments serve public interest, journalists also need insight and expertise to alert about aspects like exclusions, unequal benefits, and violations of human rights. As part of its journalism education series, UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communic
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Is ChatGPT a Friend or Foe in the War on Misinformation? A South African Perspective
Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa, volume 42, issue 2 (2023), pp. 3-16
"The release of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 met with fears and optimism. One particularly important avenue of research that is emerging revolves around ChatGPT's ability to provide accurate and unbiased information on a variety of topics. Given the interest that Google and Microsoft have shown in sim
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Social media and politics as usual? Exploring the role of social media in the 2022 Kenyan presidential election
Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (2023), 321–343 pp.
“How is social media used in African elections and what is its impact? This article builds on existing research on the role of social media in African elections to argue that its impact is linked to its interaction with traditional media and pre-existing political features of a country. Drawing on
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AI and automated decision-making in news and media: Key technologies and emerging challenges
Melbourne: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society; RMIT University (2023), 37 pp.
"Automated systems and processes are a common feature of the news and media environment. This report introduces four key examples: search, recommendation, automated content moderation and curation, and advertising technology (AdTech). We provide a basic explanation of how these systems work at the t
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Mapping Out Curriculum Development: Your Guide to Developing Trainings and Courses
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2023), 19 pp.
"DW Akademie’s “Mapping out curriculum development” guide sets out an agile process that leads you step-by-step through designing an innovative and interactive training program. It can be used to develop trainings for journalists and media managers, as well as to develop media and information
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Algorithms in the newsroom? News readers’ perceived credibility and selection of automated journalism
Journalism, volume 22, issue 1 (2021), pp. 86–103
"Automated journalism, the autonomous production of journalistic content through computer algorithms, is increasingly prominent in newsrooms. This enables the production of numerous articles, both rapidly and cheaply. Yet, how news readers perceive journalistic automation is pivotal to the industry,
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Artificial Intelligence and Journalism: An Agenda for Journalism Research in Africa
African Journalism Studies, volume 43, issue 1 (2021), pp. 17–33
"Globally, newsrooms are adopting various forms of artificial intelligence (AI) as part of the newsgathering, production and distribution process. Western countries and China, in particular, are leading the innovation of AI in newsrooms—testing technologies that include machine learning, automated
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Artificial Intelligence Practices in Everyday News Production: The Case of South Africa’s Mainstream Newsrooms
Journalism Practice, volume 17, issue 7 (2021), pp. 1374–1392
"This article explores artificial intelligence (AI) uptake in selected South African mainstream newsrooms. It seeks to determine the extent to which AI has been adopted and how journalists and editors perceive its appropriation in newsmaking practices. To address these two broad aims, the study used
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Journalism Education and Fake News: A Literature Review
Medijska Istraživanja, volume 26, issue 2 (2020), pp. 77-99
"This article offers a scholarly review of the literature and research on journalism education and fake news from an international and a local (Croatian) perspective. The purpose of this paper is to examine the connection between the education for journalists as a scholarly and academic discipline (
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Fear and Lying in the EU: Fighting Disinformation on Migration with Alternative Narratives
Brussels: European Policy Centre (2020), 51 pp.
"This Issue Paper examines nearly 1,500 news articles from four EU member states (Germany, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic) published between May 2019 and July 2020. It shows that disinformation narratives about migration seek to exploit readers’ fears to polarise public opinion, manufacture d
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Artificial Intelligence: Reflections in Philosophy, Theology, and the Social Sciences
Dragos-Cristian Vasilescu; Michael Filzmoser; Diana Löffler; Andreas Theodorou; Johannes Grössl; Jan G. Michel; Vanessa Schäffner; Stefan Reining; Julia Alessandra Harzheim; Rebecca Davnall; Kilian Karger; Leonie Seng; Lukas Brand; Agnieszka Wykowska; Daniel Neumann; Walther Ch. Zimmerli; Scarlet Schaffrath; David J. Gunkel; Carmen Krämer; Astrid Marieke Rosenthal-von der Pütten; Benedikt Paul Göcke; Andreas Bischof; Arne Maibaum; Gábor L. Ambrus; Tobias Müller
Leiden / Paderborn: Brill | mentis (2020), 404 pp.
"This interdisciplinary edited volume examines artificial intelligence through philosophy, theology, ethics, and the social sciences. It addresses consciousness, superintelligence, AI ethics, human-machine relationships, robot rights and dignity, social robots, and the broader societal consequences
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New Powers, New Responsibilities: A Global Survey of Journalism and Artificial Intelligence
London, UK: POLIS (2019), 111 pp.
"This report examines how artificial intelligence is being adopted by news organisations worldwide and how it may reshape journalistic work. Based on an international survey, it explores AI applications in newsgathering, news production and distribution, alongside organisational strategies, newsroom
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An Exploratory Study of “Fake News” and Media Trust in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa
African Journalism Studies, volume 40, issue 1 (2019), pp. 107–123
“In recent years, concerns about the perceived increase in the amount of “fake news” have become prevalent in discussions about media and politics, particularly in the United States and Europe. However, debates around “fake news”, even if some object to the use of the term due to it being
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Journalism, ‘Fake News’ & Disinformation: Handbook for Journalism Education and Training
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO (2018), 128 pp.
"This handbook seeks to provide an internationally-relevant model curriculum, open to adoption or adaptation, which responds to the emerging global problem of disinformation that confronts societies in general, and journalism in particular. Serving as a model curriculum, the publication is designed
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I, Robot. You, Journalist. Who is the Author? Authorship, bylines and full disclosure in automated journalism
Digital Journalism, volume 5, issue 7 (2017), pp. 829–849
"The broadening reliance on algorithms to generate news automatically, referred to as “automated journalism” or “robot journalism”, has significant practical, sociopolitical, psychological, legal and occupational implications for news organizations, journalists and their audiences. One of it
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