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Whose responsibility? Deconstructing global responsible AI from the African lens: a review
AI and Ethics, volume 6 (2026), 19 pp.
"This paper uses the theory of decoloniality to critically examine how African scholars have interrogated the dominant, global narratives surrounding responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI). Through a multivocal literature review, the paper reveals a range of critical perspectives that expose syste
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Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: Insights From the Global South
Media and Communication, volume 14 (2026), 19 pp.
"Scholarship on AI and journalism in the Global South has highlighted how digital and data colonialism reproduce global hierarchies of power, labour, and knowledge, often through platform capitalism and externally controlled technological infrastructures. Yet limited empirical research examines how
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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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Friends or Foes? Exploring the Framing of Artificial Intelligence Innovations in Africa-Focused Journalism
Journalism and Media, volume 5, issue 4 (2024), pp. 1749–1770
"The rise and widespread use of generative AI technologies, including ChatGPT, Claude, Synthesia, DALL-E, Gemini, Meta AI, and others, have raised fresh concerns in journalism practice. While the development represents a source of hope and optimism for some practitioners, including journalists and e
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Unravelling Socio-Technological Barriers to AI Integration: A Qualitative Study of Southern African Newsrooms
Emerging Media, volume 2, issue 3 (2024), pp. 474-498
"This study explores the socio-technological barriers to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions in three countries of the global south – South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Through 20 in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, it examines the distributio
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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: 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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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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