scholarly journals Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Journalism: transformations in the company, products, contents and professional profile

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-193
Author(s):  
José-Miguel Túñez-López ◽  
César Fieiras-Ceide ◽  
Martín Vaz-Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
News Production ◽  
Professional Profile ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media ◽  
Technology And Communication ◽  
Depth Interviews

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most promising innovation frameworks with the potential to transform our relationship with technology. Particularly in journalism, AI is beginning to make its way transversally into the news production process and into the structure and functioning of the media. This article aims to anticipate how AI will impact on the Spanish media ecosystem and explain the medium-term transformations that are already being felt. The research approach is of an exploratory and descriptive nature, with a qualitative methodology based on Delphi-like in-depth interviews, encompassing an intentional sample of academic representatives, relevant associations and leading companies in the field of technology and communication. The results point out that AI will allow the extension of the current automated text news to audio and video on demand, it will favour that news can have a non-linear unstructured consumption, it will promote changes in the business model through new ways of relating with the audience and distribution of the product. Also, variations in the professional profile with a less operative journalist who will avoid routines –even of personal nature– that can be imitated by the machine and increase its cognitive contribution to the news production.

scholarly journals Native Advertising—The Formats and Types of Content Most Demanded by Brands in the Spanish Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-544
Author(s):  
Daniel Zomeño ◽  
Rocío Blay-Arráez
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Editorial Content ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Formats ◽  
Depth Interviews

Media convergence and the incorporation of new narratives typical of the consumption habits of younger audiences in the social media environment have led to the proliferation of a wide variety of formats and types of content in the media ecosystem through which the editorial content offered to brands is being distributed. This qualitative research, using in-depth interviews with a qualified sample of branded content managers from the main Spanish media, allows us to determine the main characteristics of the native advertising demanded by advertisers. The results corroborate observations that content channelled through more sophisticated consumption experiences, using both multimedia and interactivity with a clear transmedia approach, tends to be better received by the audience and, therefore, in greater demand by brands. It also confirms that both video and social media formats have grown exponentially when it comes to providing an outlet for branded content. Based on the results obtained, a proposed classification of these products, including definitions, has been drawn up so they can be publicised to the professional world, offering the reflection and precision that their rapid development has not allowed until now.

scholarly journals Automated News in Brazilian television: a case study on the AIDA system (Globo-Brazil)

2019 ◽  
pp. 255-274
Author(s):  
Renato Essenfelder ◽  
João Canavilhas ◽  
Haline Costa Maia ◽  
Ricardo Jorge Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Television Network ◽  
Secondary Role ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media

Technological advancements have created a media ecosystem in which traditional journalism sees its existence strongly threatened by the emergence of new players. Social networks have created a competitive environment that, whether due to its dispersion or its capillarity, has relegated the mainstream media to a secondary role in the media ecosystem. Ironically, the technologies that threaten traditional journalism are also those that can save it; provided they are used correctly. Journalism, weakened by the economic crisis and with increasingly smaller newsrooms, has artificial intelligence as an opportunity to recover a certain centrality in the media ecosystem. This paper studies AIDA, a project from the Brazilian television network Globo. This project looked to automation as a way to avoid errors and ambiguities in the news. The study of the AIDA case, complemented by interviews, presents the challenges to achieve the automatization of news regarding electoral polls.

scholarly journals Protection of minors in the European digital audiovisual context: a necessary dialogue between parents, academy, regulators and industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 127-146
Author(s):  
Aurora Labio-Bernal ◽  
Lorena R. Romero-Domínguez ◽  
María José García-Orta
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Communication Policy ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Communication Policies

This paper represents the initial phase of a larger project being developed by the “Media, communication policy and democracy in the European Union” research group, which is currently working on the study “Communication policies, SVOD platforms and values education for minors in the single digital market (2020-2022)”. We wish to pursue in this study that, beyond technological considerations, it is necessary to expand the scope of child protection by establishing mutual collaboration between regulators, distributors and video on demand services, as well as consumers and parents’ organisations, in an effort to further enhance cooperation and mutual understanding (European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services, 2017b, p. 75). It is for this reason that we believe that the academic sphere can also be invited into this wide-ranging discussion on child protection to contribute reflections on a key aspect: audiovisual and media education, an essential pillar of protection in addition to filters, external limits, and electronic labelling. We thus uphold a vision that not only considers the “digital stuff” but also highlights the need for “ethos stuff” (Goggin, 2008, p.89). In this respect, we have considered it essential a literature review on the concept of media literacy. Secondly, our qualitative methodology involves an analysis of the instructions issued by the European Union and their implementation in Spain. In this stage, we have conducted desk research based on a narrative analysis of the documents and programs of different institutions in order to chart the evolution of the question in recent years, at a time when the digital environment has changed more quickly than ever before. This same type of analysis is also conducted on the initiatives of European and Spanish companies to determine whether they are implementing child protection strategies.

Summaries

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Central Research ◽  
News Production ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Media ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Depth Interviews

Sara De Vuyst Hacking gender in journalism. A multi-method study on gender issues in the rapidly changing and digitalised field of news production This article explores gender issues in a rapidly changing journalistic work environment. There are several traditional gender divides in the current journalistic landscape. First, women are still underrepresented in newsrooms. Second, journalism is horizontally and vertically segregated based on gender. The purpose of this article is to test the extent to which these traditional gender divides are present in Belgian (Flemish) journalism and whether recent developments in the media sector have had an impact on traditional barriers for women in journalism or whether they have created new gender divides. The article addresses three central research questions: (1) To what extent is Belgian journalism characterised by traditional gender divides? (2) To what extent have traditional gender divides evolved in a changing journalistic work environment in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium? (3) To what extent has digitalisation contributed to new gender divides in journalism? Four studies based on surveys and in-depth interviews contribute to answering different aspects of the central research questions. Keywords: news production, gender segregation, digitalization, working conditions, multi-method

Media representation of China in the time of pandemic: A comparative study of Kenyan and Ethiopian media

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hangwei Li
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
African Countries ◽  
News Production ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Professional Norms ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Crisis Responses ◽  
Depth Interviews

China has been a pivotal player throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, yet there is very little research on how China’s role and effort have been interpreted among African countries that are diverged in their crisis responses. Through content and discourse analysis of the local media and more than 50 in-depth interviews, this study investigates media representation of China during the coronavirus pandemic in the Kenyan and Ethiopian newspapers, specifically Kenyan’s Daily Nation and The Standard, and the Ethiopian Herald and The Reporter. This study finds that Kenyan newspapers adopted a more critical and problem-centred narrative, as many of its news articles are organized around problems such as the ‘debt-trap diplomacy’, and the mistreatment of Africans in Guangzhou during the pandemic. Unlike Kenyan newspapers, Ethiopian newspapers adopted a more positive and favourable tone towards China. This article also captures the dynamics behind the production of China-related news during the pandemic, and discusses how the media environment, professional norms, journalistic habitus, the ‘rules of games’ (i.e. who counts as an important source) have fundamentally shaped the news production.

“What we do is not actually journalism”: Role negotiations in online departments of two newspapers in Slovenia and Serbia

Journalism ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1023-1040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Vobič ◽  
Ana Milojević
Keyword(s):  
News Production ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negotiation Processes ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
The Media ◽  
Institutional Status ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study offers insights into articulations between the normative and the empirical in online journalists’ self-negotiations concerning their roles in people’s assimilation of information, the daily provision of news and their institutional status in online departments. In-depth interviews with online journalists from two leading newspapers, Delo in Slovenia and Novosti in Serbia, are used to investigate their negotiations with respect to their societal role. The analysis reveals troubled negotiation processes among interviewed online journalists when they consider what is regarded as “true” journalism, news production requirements and their institutional status. This indicates that rearrangements of political–economic relations in both post-socialist societies have increased journalism’s responsibility to the media owners and power holders and surpassed its normatively defined responsibility to the public. Both case subjects are compared through the prism of the processes of negotiation of normative principles of journalism in the social, national and institutional contexts of the two newspapers.

scholarly journals Analisis Strategi Online Consumer Relationship Management Pada Produk Pisau Cukur Banner

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Admiral Budi Bramasta
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Relationship Management ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Customer Relationships ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Online Consumer ◽  
Depth Interviews

This research uses a qualitative research approach with descriptive type and uses in-depth interviews as primary data in research data collection. This research is important because along with the digital transformation that is developing, marketing is now experiencing a development from transactional to marketing on a relationship basis. The use of various marketing tools to manage customer relationships such as Instagram and Whatsapp can also help to maintain customer relationships because this complete the customer's culture. The result of this research is an online CRM strategy built by Banner using artificial intelligence/chatbot to be able to manage relationships with customers. PT. AWP as the manager of the Banner product uses an online CRM program called Siska to be able to manage relations with customers

scholarly journals Science journalism and digital storytelling

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. C01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Pitrelli
Keyword(s):  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Science Journalism ◽  
News Production ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media ◽  
Networking Technologies ◽  
The Impact

Among the most interesting aspects of the changes in the media ecosystem a leading role is played by the impact of digital and networking technologies on the ways news reports are built. In this Jcom commentary, the issues of the relationship between digital storytelling and professional news production will focus on science journalism. The commentary will deal with theoretical reflections and practical examples of innovative experiences in which different narration methods were exploited for scientific information.

Unpacking Journalists’ (Dis)Trust: Expressions of Suspicion in the Narratives of Journalists Covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tali Aharoni ◽  
Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt
Keyword(s):  
Information Sources ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Conflict Studies ◽  
News Production ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Hostile Environments ◽  
Depth Interviews

Despite growing attention to notions of (dis)trust in both journalism studies and conflict studies, the role of suspicion and distrust in the dynamics of conflict coverage has not yet been investigated. This paper explores the various aspects of suspicion in the perceptions of journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, drawing on twenty in-depth interviews with journalists and an interdisciplinary approach to the conceptualization of suspicion and (dis)trust. An inductive-qualitative analysis of journalists’ narratives identified three main aspects: suspicion of information sources, suspicion of peer journalists, and awareness of being under suspicion. The study demonstrates that through all stages of news production, journalists operate within a perpetual context of suspicion despite being required to generate trust. This dilemma culminates in hostile environments, where journalists must trust their sources in order to ensure their physical security yet are professionally required to epistemically suspect the information delivered by these same sources. Taken together, the manifestations of suspicion identified in this study provide an analytical framework for understanding (dis)trust within journalism and for further studying the processes through which these manifestations can contribute to public trust in both the media and conflict parties.

scholarly journals What it means to be true: youth cultures in search for authenticity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria A. Litvina
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Cultural Authenticity ◽  
Cultural Images ◽  
Youth Cultures ◽  
The Media ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Over Time

Ways of conceptualizing the authenticity of (sub)cultures have been changing over time. (Sub)cultural authenticity/identity had long been understood as radical stylistic exclusivity: mohawks and leather jackets were emblematic of belonging to a certain (sub) culture. As the Internet and market developed, (sub)cultural images became publicly available for investigation and copying, which in turn exacerbated the questions of distinguishing between “genuine” representatives of (sub)cultures and posers, copies, wannabes. Certain (sub)cultures have paid a price for such mainstream attention: cooptation of protest, commercialization of music and style, moral panics in the media, persecution by authorities, constant rotation of new participants. In order to survive some (sub)cultures (such as punks) had to simulate their “death”, while others (goths, emos) were on the brink of extinction, but still attempting to reanimate their culture after the intervention of mainstream. The paper explores the ways of (re) production of authenticity in youth (sub)cultures/solidarities/scenes. The empirical bases of the research are two ethnographic case-studies: anarchistic solidarity and dark scene. Both case-studies were conducted using qualitative methodology (in-depth interviews, participant observations) in St Petersburg. Through the prism of narratives of young people identifying themselves with anarchists, punks, goths, neformaly or antifascists the author examines what it means to be authentic (where lies the boundary between “true” participants and “posers”) and how external factors (such as Internet and market) influence transformations inside youth (sub) cultures.

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