Countering Algorithmic Bias and Disinformation and Effectively Harnessing the Power of AI in Media

This study analyzed JMCQ articles in the specific topic area of mass communication technology and media channels, overall and across four 20-year periods. Primary topics changed from emphasizing media industry and policy issues, international issues of information freedom, audience research, and WWII media issues in early periods to more specific regulatory issues, ratings and audience analyses, macro and social issues, and media technology development issues in more recent periods. JMCQ serves as a treasure trove of the history of broadcast media technology and competition, policy debates, and audience interests, with a recent emphasis on more rigorous empirical analyses.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping Media Developments and Issues: Topics, Clusters, and Content of JMCQ Articles on Communication Technology/Media Channels, 1935–2017

Rice,

Bucy

2023

“…According to available data, fact-checkers have been advancing AI with computer scientists' assistance to scale up their operations, reaching niche audiences on social media, and being more proactive in countering falsehoods (Graves & Amazeen, 2019;Johnson, 2023). Notwithstanding the role played by third-party providers in leveraging AI applications for publishers worldwide, there has been a growing conversation on the organizational responsibility that journalists should take regarding proprietary technologies (D. Shin, Hameleers, et al, 2022). It is of utmost importance that the AI products implemented in newsrooms are committed to journalistic standards (D. Shin, Hameleers, et al, 2022).…”

Section: Promises and Challenges Of Automated Fact-checkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Notwithstanding the role played by third-party providers in leveraging AI applications for publishers worldwide, there has been a growing conversation on the organizational responsibility that journalists should take regarding proprietary technologies (D. Shin, Hameleers, et al, 2022). It is of utmost importance that the AI products implemented in newsrooms are committed to journalistic standards (D. Shin, Hameleers, et al, 2022).…”

Section: Promises and Challenges Of Automated Fact-checkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fostering Artificial Intelligence to Face Misinformation: Discourses and Practices of Automated Fact-Checking in Brazil

Lelo

2023

This article examines the advancement of automated fact-checking in Brazil and investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) products shape publishers’ discourses and practices. First, it maps the field to identify how it has evolved throughout the years. Next, it draws on 30 official statements published by journalists and their tech partners, and seven semi-structured interviews with representatives from five websites. This article shows an emerging automation landscape in the Brazilian fact-checking venture supported by the tech industry. Nonetheless, AI has challenged fact-checkers’ authority and increased the technologists’ influence over journalism.

“…In the 2019 Invited Forum, the authors argued that the hype around AI is over-inflated and that journalists and researchers need to realistically evaluate the actual impact of technology (Broussard et al, 2019). The 2022 Invited Forum focused on countering algorithmic bias and disinformation while effectively harnessing the power of AI in the media (Shin et al, 2022). Despite the hype and concerns surrounding AI, the researchers in the Invited Forum agreed that the media industry is facing a significant challenge as AI applications will inevitably alter the industry.…”

Section: Retrospective Of Media Management In Jmcqmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping the Evolution of Media Management and Industry Studies in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly: 100-Year Retrospective and Future Directions

Chan-Olmsted,

Jung

2023

To draw a picture of the evolution of media management research in the context of published scholarly work, this invited piece reviews works related to media management and industry studies published in JMCQ for the past 100 years. Initially, attention was paid to understanding the basics of newspaper as an economic entity. Since then, the status of chain ownership and consolidation, impacts of consolidation on newspaper content, intermedia competition, human resource management, business strategy, adoption/consumption, engagement, and recently, AI in the media industry were the major topics in the media management studies chronologically. Future directions for media management and industry studies were discussed.