Artificial Intelligence and Journalism: An Agenda for Journalism Research in Africa

Kothari, Ammina; Cruikshank, Sally Ann

doi:10.1080/23743670.2021.1999840

Cited by 24 publications

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“…In our list, only 5.38% (N = 5) of the cases were from Asia, and 2.15% (N = 2) were from Oceania. The application of AI in African newsrooms appears to be very limited, as shown in prior studies (Kothari and Cruikshank 2021;Munoriyarwa et al 2021).…”

Section: An Overview Of the Ai In News Mediamentioning

confidence: 96%

Artificial Intelligence in News Media: Current Perceptions and Future Outlook

de-Lima-Santos

Ceron

2021

Journalism and Media

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In recent years, news media has been greatly disrupted by the potential of technologically driven approaches in the creation, production, and distribution of news products and services. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged from the realm of science fiction and has become a very real tool that can aid society in addressing many issues, including the challenges faced by the news industry. The ubiquity of computing has become apparent and has demonstrated the different approaches that can be achieved using AI. We analyzed the news industry’s AI adoption based on the seven subfields of AI: (i) machine learning; (ii) computer vision (CV); (iii) speech recognition; (iv) natural language processing (NLP); (v) planning, scheduling, and optimization; (vi) expert systems; and (vii) robotics. Our findings suggest that three subfields are being developed more in the news media: machine learning, computer vision, and planning, scheduling, and optimization. Other areas have not been fully deployed in the journalistic field. Most AI news projects rely on funds from tech companies such as Google. This limits AI’s potential to a small number of players in the news industry. We made conclusions by providing examples of how these subfields are being developed in journalism and presented an agenda for future research.

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Section: An Overview Of the Ai In News Mediamentioning

confidence: 96%

Artificial Intelligence in News Media: Current Perceptions and Future Outlook

de-Lima-Santos

Ceron

2021

Journalism and Media

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“…In our list, only 5.38% (N=5) of the cases were from Asia, and 2.15% (N=2) were from Oceania. The application of AI in African newsrooms appears to be very limited, as shown in prior studies (Kothari and Cruikshank 2021;Munoriyarwa, Chiumbu, and Motsaathebe 2021).…”

Section: An Overview Of the Ai In News Mediamentioning

confidence: 94%

Artificial Intelligence in News Media: Current Perceptions and Future Outlook

de-Lima-Santos¹,

Ceron²

2021

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In recent years, news media has been greatly disrupted by the potential of technologically driven approaches in the creation, production, and distribution of news products and services. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged from the realm of science fiction and has become a very real tool that can aid society in addressing many issues, including the challenges faced by the news industry. The ubiquity of computing has become apparent and has demonstrated the different approaches that can be achieved using AI. We analyzed the news industry’s AI adoption based on the seven subfields of AI: (i) machine learning; (ii) computer vision (CV); (iii) speech recognition; (iv) natural language processing (NLP); (v) planning, scheduling, and optimization; (vi) expert systems; and (vii) robotics. Our findings suggest that three subfields are being developed more in the news media: machine learning, computer vision, as well as planning, scheduling, and optimization. Other areas have not been fully deployed in the journalistic field. Most AI news projects rely on funds from tech companies such as Google. This limits AI’s potential to a small number of players in the news industry. We make conclusions by providing examples of how these subfields are being developed in journalism and present an agenda for future research.

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“…The work in [19] discusses the integration of MI in medical imaging practice from the perspectives of African radiographers. The authors in [20] outline an agenda for journalism research on artificial intelligence in Africa. The work in [21] explores the ethics of MI in Africa, focusing on the rule of education.…”

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Machine Intelligence in Africa: a survey

Tembine,

Tapo,

Danioko

et al. 2024

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Artificial Intelligence and Journalism: An Agenda for Journalism Research in Africa

Cited by 24 publications

References 42 publications

Artificial Intelligence in News Media: Current Perceptions and Future Outlook

Artificial Intelligence in News Media: Current Perceptions and Future Outlook

Artificial Intelligence in News Media: Current Perceptions and Future Outlook

Machine Intelligence in Africa: a survey

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