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Tomás Dodds

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Joanne Kuai @joannekuai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🎙️ New episode! I spoke with @sethclewis.bsky.social @rodzam.bsky.social @tomasdodds.bsky.social about their newly published book, Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination (Polity, 2026), for the New Books Network. 🎧 newbooksnetwork.com/journalism-i... 📖 journalismandai.com
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Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Tomás Dodds, "Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination" (Polity, 2027) - New Books Network
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We are editing the new Routledge Handbook of Open Source Investigations! 🎉 For this call for papers, we welcome theoretical and empirical contributions, including case-based studies. Deadline for abstracts (500 words): August 31, 2026 See more info here: ptml.sjmc.wisc.edu/2026/06/25/c...
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CfP: The Routledge Handbook of Open Source Investigations
Call for Papers The Routledge Handbook of Open Source Investigations Open source investigations (OSINV) leverage the widespread availability of natively digital or digitized data to build narratives a...
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Seth C. Lewis @sethclewis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
New book: Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination (Polity), with Rodrigo Zamith and @tomasdodds.bsky.social. Free and open access on Aug. 3 — anyone can read it or assign it. The opening chapter is yours now → journalismandai.com
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Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination
Drawing on questions of creativity, democratic accountability, platform power, and human agency, this book offers a toolkit for reimagining journalism not just as an industry in the face of artificial...
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Thankful to the @uwmadisonls.bsky.social for featuring the Public Tech Media Lab in their latest newsletter, and to Margaret Shreiner for writing this incredible article. Learn more about everything that we are doing at the Lab and our plans for the future here: ls.wisc.edu/news/at-the-...
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At the Intersection of Journalism and AI
Tomás Dodds   is leading the new Public Tech Media Lab, which aims to be a resource for journalists hoping to be deliberate about how to ethically use new…
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I spoke with Nigel van Schaik from the Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek about the hype around AI in journalism and the special issue we recently published in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social. Check it out here: www.svdj.nl/nieuws/hoe-j...
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Hoe journalisten de hype rond AI maken, bevragen én vrezen
Journalisten laten zich makkelijk meeslepen in nieuwe technologische hypes, omdat ze bang zijn om achter te blijven en de techsector te vriend willen houden. Daardoor vergeten ze weleens dat de manier...
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If you missed it, check out Matthew Lawrence's (@cen4infores.bsky.social) talk for the Public Tech Media Lab. This talk delves into the disparities that become apparent when different kinds of #OSINT practices are viewed through the lens of their practitioners. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXou...
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OSINT: Disparity and Consensus by Matthew Lawrence
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Applications are now open for the @aejmc-icd.bsky.social Teaching Award 🏆 I am coordinating this year's award, which recognizes excellence, innovation, and effective approaches to teaching international communication and journalism studies. ℹ️ More info here: community.aejmc.org/internationa...
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Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek @svdj.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Journalisten laten zich makkelijk meeslepen in nieuwe technologie. Daardoor vergeten ze weleens dat ze zelf invloed hebben op de manier waarop die technologie zich ontwikkelt. @tomasdodds.bsky.social: 'De techsector is heel goed in het verkopen van verhalen aan journalisten.'
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Hoe journalisten de hype rond AI maken, bevragen én vrezen
Journalisten laten zich makkelijk meeslepen in nieuwe technologische hypes, omdat ze bang zijn om achter te blijven en de techsector te vriend willen houden. Daardoor vergeten ze weleens dat de manier...
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Seth C. Lewis @sethclewis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🚨 New book announcement! For two decades, journalists have been running on a hamster wheel — producing more, faster, with less. AI is speeding that wheel up. But it doesn't have to. (1/x)
Provisional book cover for new book "Journalism in the Age of AI," by Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Tomás Dodds, being published open access by Polity in 2026.
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AI, Media & Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📅 Last week for submissions to the Natali Helberger award from the Public Tech Media Lab at @uwmadison.bsky.social, founded by our former colleague @tomasdodds.bsky.social! 👉 For PhD students working on public interest tech in journalism, read more on applying: ptml.sjmc.wisc.edu/natali-helbe...
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Natali Helberger Award
The Natali Helberger Award recognizes doctoral students who have conducted research through interdisciplinary collaboration that advances a Public Interest Technology (PIT) perspective in…
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
CBS News Radio (1927-2026). The last of America's three original, national radio networks will shutter after nearly a century. The network that defined broadcast news and employed truth-tellers like Murrow is silenced by Bari Weiss. How appropriate. deadline.com/2026/03/cbs-... #CBSNews
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CBS News Radio To Shutter Amid News Division Cuts
The closure of CBS News Radio ends nearly 100 years of radio programming from CBS.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
“.. Trump’s foreign policy strategy will leave the United States “poorer, less secure, and less influential than it has been for most living Americans’ lifetimes,” writes Stephen Walt. @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🚨 New paper out! Here’s the Introduction to our Special Issue on AI Hype, co‑edited with Naomi Mine, @natalihelberger.bsky.social, @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social & @teachguz.bsky.social, on how AI hype shapes journalism’s norms, values, and labor politics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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AI Hype in Journalism: Visibility, Power, and the Politics of Media Narratives
Hype is a phenomenon that emerges from a set of practices rooted in the norms and narratives not only of journalism but of digital media and its algorithmic infrastructure more broadly, in the soci...
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
If you missed it live, Georgia Edwards' (WITNESS) talk for the Public Tech Media Lab is now online. Georgia argues that the institutionalisation of #OSINT in journalism is also an opportunity to develop community-based verification in Global Majority newsrooms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFxL...
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On the Unintended Consequences of the Institutionalisation of OSINV with Georgia Edwards
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UW Center for Journalism Ethics @uwethics.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The Public Tech Media Lab & @tomasdodds.bsky.social will host a "Digital Investigations Bootcamp" on campus in May 2026. Come learn from expert open source investigation (OSINV) trainers how to verify digital evidence & uncover misinformation. More info: ptml.sjmc.wisc.edu/2026/02/05/r...
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Christopher Cwynar @cwynar.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Here's a timely CFP from @tomasdodds.bsky.social and the Public Tech Media Lab at UW-Madison for a special issue of @JournalismPractice. The deadline for extended abstracts is April 1, 2026.
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CfP Journalism Practice: Journalism, Platforms, and Public Interest Technologies
Special Issue Editor(s) Tomas Dodds, University of Wisconsin-Madison doddsrojas@wisc.edu Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida jmcnealy@jou.ufl.edu Mona Sloane, University of Virginia mona.sloane@vir...
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Seth C. Lewis @sethclewis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
What's ahead for journalism in 2026? Based on my ongoing research (and forthcoming book!) on AI and journalism with Rodrigo Zamith and @tomasdodds.bsky.social, I explain why AI is a critical fork-in-the-road moment for journalism's future: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/ai-b...
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AI breaks the hamster wheel of journalism
"The breaking of the hamster wheel's fundamental premise — that humans must run it — creates space for reimagining what journalism <em>could be</em> if not organized around acceleration as its governi...
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Mark Boukes @markboukes.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Excited to share our latest article in Journalism Practice: “Journalists ‘Attagged’: The @-tag as a Bonding Tool for ‘Supercharged Critical Publics’” Led by @Marloes Geboers, and /w @tomasdodds.bsky.social, Eirliani A Rahman and myself — published open access: doi.org/10.1080/1751...
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A new commentary for our SI on AI hype in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social is out! ✨ Seth Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Jon B. Bunquin argue that hype warrants closer attention, not just as a media trend, but as a window into deeper social and institutional dynamics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🗞️ My conversation with Luciano Jiménez on the impact of AI on fake news and elections was published today in La Seguna! Read the full interview in Spanish below ⤵️
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UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication @uwsjmc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Asst prof @tomasdodds.bsky.social spoke to @isthmusmadison.bsky.social about his new Public Tech Media Lab, which aims to teach journalists how to use open source technologies and make newsrooms less dependent on big tech companies that have their own private interests. isthmus.com/opinion/from...
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Journalism in the age of AI
A new UW-Madison lab aims to help newsrooms develop in-house artificial intelligence tools that reflect their own values and needs.
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UW Center for Journalism Ethics @uwethics.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
We're excited to welcome new @uwsjmc.bsky.social faculty @tomasdodds.bsky.social to the Center as an affiliate. Dodds examines how new technologies shape newsroom practices, journalistic authority and the ways reporters understand their profession. Welcome,Tomás! journalism.wisc.edu/news/new-fac...
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New Faculty Q&A with Assistant Professor Tomás Dodds
Journalist and researcher Dr. Tomás Dodds joins the School of Journalism and Mass Communication as an assistant professor.
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I did a small Q&A with my new colleagues at the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication about what students can expect to learn in my classes, why I chose to come to Madison, and what I was doing for four weeks in Tenerife! Check it out here ⤵️ journalism.wisc.edu/news/new-fac...
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New Faculty Q&A with Assistant Professor Tomás Dodds
Journalist and researcher Dr. Tomás Dodds joins the School of Journalism and Mass Communication as an assistant professor.
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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS! The deadline for this CfP is fast coming up! Submit your abstract to “Institutionalizing Open-Source Investigations in #Journalism” by Sep 1, guest edited by @sethclewis.bsky.social, @tomasdodds.bsky.social, Alexa Koenig, Rodrigo Zamith, & @davidcheruiyot.bsky.social.
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News, Technology, and Society Network @ntsnetwork.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Eleven academics met today to discuss "The AI turn in journalism: Disruption, adaptation, and democratic futures" recent essay during our first News, Technology, and Society Network reading group. Thanks to @dbossio.bsky.social for facilitating and to all from RMIT and beyond who attended.
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This was fun! Thanks to everyone who joined us.
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The introduction to our SI on bridging the research-practice gap in journalism has now been published! You can read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... It was a pleasure to co-edit this special issue with @annaschjoett.bsky.social, @nadjaschaetz.bsky.social, and @claudiamellado.bsky.social
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Excited about my first public lecture and the trip to Leiden next week as part of our research exchange with @agdorst.bsky.social @tomasdodds.bsky.social @karakanta.bsky.social
A promo poster for Bissie Anderson’s public lecture ‘Strengthening journalism from the periphery’ (27 May 2025, 3-4pm, Digital Lab, 
Leiden University)
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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
SPECIAL ISSUE CfP! Submit abstracts to our Special Issue on "Institutionalizing Open-Source Investigations in Journalism", edited by @sethclewis.bsky.social, @tomasdodds.bsky.social, Alexa Koenig, @rodzam.bsky.social & @davidcheruiyot.bsky.social 🗓️Sep 1, 2025 ➡️Info: drive.google.com/file/d/1R9T8...
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
How is #AI reshaping journalism research, education, and practice? Join me, Seth Lewis, @natalihelberger.bsky.social, and @nickmattis.bsky.social to chat about the challenges, the hype, and the future of the field. 📆 June 2nd, 16:00 (CET). 📍 SPUI25 (or stream online). ➡️ spui25.nl/programma/th...
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The Future of Journalism (Studies) in the Age of AI
This panel examines the range of approaches currently used in journalism studies to analyze AI and news. It aims to identify which approaches are proving most productive, which may be less useful, and...
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🚨 New publication out now in Journalism! The AI turn in journalism forces us to rethink journalism’s identity and its relationship with different stakeholders. 🔗 Read the full piece here (open access 🔓): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Amsterdam Law School @uvalawschool.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
How does the power of Big Tech affect our democracies, and can it be contained? Don't miss this SPUI25 event this Thursday with theresajseipp.bsky.social, @pjleerssen.bsky.social and @tomasdodds.bsky.social bit.ly/3EV8yFS
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
📣 This week, I'll be moderating a conversation with @theresajseipp.bsky.social and @pjleerssen.bsky.social on the rising power of big tech and its growing influence on global politics, media, and democracy. 📆 Join us on 8 May at 17:00 at SPUI25. ➡️ Registered here: spui25.nl/programma/re...
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The Rising Power of Big Tech (rescheduled)
In a moment of rapid change for global politics, Big Tech platforms and their owners are shaping up to be international power brokers. Trump’s White house cozies up to Silicon Valley oligarchs as Elon...
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I chatted with Olaf Geurts from @svdj.bsky.social about our research on knowledge silos in Dutch newsrooms. We discussed how these silos hinder the adoption of #AI in journalism and why it’s urgent to break them down. ➡ You can read the interview here (in Dutch): www.svdj.nl/nieuws/ieder...
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Ieder z'n specialisme op de redactie? Bij AI-gebruik is dat een valkuil
Redacties experimenteren volop met AI, maar een verantwoorde toepassing van kunstmatige intelligentie vergt behalve technische kennis ook gevoel voor journalistieke dilemma’s. En die twee zaken bevind...
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Theresa Josephine Seipp @theresajseipp.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
📣 Panel Discussion: The Rising Power of Big Tech (New Date!) Thursday, 8 May 2025 | 17:00 | SPUI25. Join @pjleerssen.bsky.social, @tomasdodds.bsky.social and me as we discuss Big Tech’s growing influence on global politics, media and democracy. Register here: spui25.nl/programma/re...
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The Rising Power of Big Tech (rescheduled)
In a moment of rapid change for global politics, Big Tech platforms and their owners are shaping up to be international power brokers. Trump’s White house cozies up to Silicon Valley oligarchs as Elon...
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
📢 Muy contento de contarles que voy a ser uno de los instructores para la Academia de #JournalismAI para América Latina! 📆 Las postulaciones están abiertas para todo #LATAM hasta el 27 de abril! ➡️ Más información y postulaciones en: www.journalismai.info/programmes/a...
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Academia de JournalismAI — JournalismAI
Un programa de formación para que redacciones de Latinoamérica puedan aprovechar el poder de la inteligencia artificial
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🚨 CfP: “Global Myth and Magic around AI: Enchanted Determinism and Folk Theories in Public Discourses on AI.” We are editing a special issue on how enchanted determinism limits discussions by reducing the public’s ability to challenge AI technologies. ➡️ Call: journals.sagepub.com/page/hij/glo...
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🚨 The commentary that Nik Usher wrote for our special issue on AI hype in media is out in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social! Nik argues that “to give into the magic of generative AI is to give technologists too much power.” ➡️ Read the commentary: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Generative AI and Journalism: Hype, The Always Already New, and Directions for Scholarly Imagination
This essay pushes against hype about generative AI in both journalism and journalism scholarship. Emergent questions around the black box nature of AI, concerns about information disorder, and prob...
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🚨 Paper number 4️⃣ from our @digitaljournalism.bsky.social Special Issue on AI Hype in Journalism is out! Bin Chen, Anfan Chen, and Shuning Lu examine how Chinese coverage of #ChatGPT was significantly shaped by global English-language media and discussions on global and domestic social media.
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I spoke with @DarinZullo about the rise of AI-assisted reporting in Boston’s newsrooms, particularly the emergence of “AI-assisted reporters.” www.boston.com/news/local-n...
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AI-assisted reporting in Boston-area newsrooms raises questions about role of new technology in building a community
Several local news outlets have published articles by an “AI-assisted reporter,” prompting experts to reflect on journalism’s path forward.
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Just wrapped up a two-day workshop on "Meaning Making and Information Integrity in the Age of AI" in Birmingham with @agdorst.bsky.social and @karakanta.bsky.social, hosted by @bissieanderson.bsky.social and the fantastic team at the @unibirmingham.bsky.social! We leave with a pocket full of ideas!
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Argentina’s President announced plans in 2024 to use AI to “predict future crimes." 🤦‍♂️ Our latest for AI & Society explains why predictive policing is problematic and fundamentally flawed: It reinforces biases, erodes civil liberties, and fails at its core task. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The hidden threat of Argentina’s AI policing - AI & SOCIETY
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Clark Merrefield's latest article highlights two new papers from our special issues in Digital Journalism & Journalism: 📝 Anna Schjøtt Hansen & Nadja Schaetz on AI hype. 📝 Bronwyn Jones & Rhianne Jones on action research at the BBC. journalistsresource.org/home/ai-ap-b...
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AI and the news: What researchers learned from the AP + the BBC
Here's what two research teams found after months embedded in global newsrooms experimenting with artificial intelligence technologies.
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Excited to kick off my fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (University of Amsterdam) with my talk: "Knowledge Silos as a Barrier to Responsible AI Practices in Journalism." 📅 Join me on 25/02 at 12:30 in Amsterdam! More info and registration: ias.uva.nl/content/even...
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Knowledge Silos as a Barrier to Responsible AI Practices in Journalism - Institute for Advanced Study IAS
Tomás Dodds, Assistant Professor in Journalism and New Media, Leiden University, is a new fellow at IAS. During his kick-off event, he will explore the concept of 'knowledge silos' in news organizatio...
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
🚨 New paper out! We examine how knowledge silos in newsrooms create barriers to responsible AI adoption. When teams operate in isolation, AI tools can be introduced without proper ethical and editorial oversight, weakening accountability. Read OA 🔓: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Knowledge Silos as a Barrier to Responsible AI Practices in Journalism? Exploratory Evidence from Four Dutch News Organisations
The effective adoption of responsible AI practices in journalism requires a concerted effort to bridge different perspectives, including technological, editorial, and managerial. Among the many cha...
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Nadja Schaetz @nadjaschaetz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
There is a lot of work that detects and debunks AI hype. But what function does AI hype actually serve? Anna Schjøtt and I draw on 8 months of observations at the Associated Press to show how expectations on AI are leveraged to coordinate actors and mobilise resources: tinyurl.com/mwr2b6t3
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AI Hype and its Function: An Ethnographic Study of the Local AI Initiative of the Associated Press
Economic precarity and the competitive environment of the news industry have resulted in pressures for news professionals to become early adopters and foster AI in journalism. At the same time, pra...
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Justin Yeung @justinyinnl.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Last year, @tomasdodds.bsky.social, @eirliani.bsky.social, Marloes Geboers, @markboukes.bsky.social and I had the honour to present at the #UNESCO Press Freedom day academic conference on digital violence, social media and press freedom. 1/n youtu.be/x6ZWyVZFqyQ?...
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PANEL: How Digital Violence in Social Media Platforms Impact Press Freedom
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Daily News Union @nydnunion.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
We don't have an Albany reporter, we don't have a metro editor -- but the brain trust at Alden Global Capital saw fit to spend money on a "content intelligence program" whose artificial intelligence might be in the running for the worst editor we've ever had.
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Tomás Dodds @tomasdodds.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🚨 New paper alert! We've released a new preprint for our research on the impact of knowledge silos on responsible AI practices in journalism. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2410.01138
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The Impact of Knowledge Silos on Responsible AI Practices in Journalism
The effective adoption of responsible AI practices in journalism requires a concerted effort to bridge different perspectives, including technological, editorial, journalistic, and managerial. Among t...
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