Impacto de la Inteligencia Artificial en el Periodismo: transformaciones en la empresa, los productos, los contenidos y el perfil profesional.

Communication & Society, 2021, Vol.34 (1), p.177-193. https://www.doi.org/10.15581/003.34.1.177-193  

Autor: 

1. Túñez-López, José-Miguel; Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, España; miguel.tunez@usc.es; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5036-9143
2. Fieiras-Ceide, César; Universidad de Santiago de Compostela; cesar.fieiras@rai.usc.es; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5606-3236
3. Vaz-Álvarez, Martín; Universidad de Santiago de Compostela; martin.vaz.alvarez@usc.es; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4848-9795

Keywords: Automation, journalism, artificial intelligence, professional profile, public Media, fake news. 

Abstract: 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.

Idioma: Inglés. 

Publicación: 12 de enero 2021.

Volumen: Communication & Society, Vol 34 No 1.  

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Journalism in Digital Native Media: Beyond Technological Determinism

Media and Communication: Digital Native News Media: Trends and Challenges, Vol 8, No 2 (2020) https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.2702

Autor: 

1. García-Orosa, Berta; Communication Sciences, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Communication Sciences, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; berta.garcia@usc.es; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6126-7401
2. López-García, Xosé; Communication Sciences, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,  Santiago de Compostela, Spain; xose.lopez.garcia@usc.es;  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1873-8260
3. Vázquez-Herrero, Jorge; Communication Sciences, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; jorge.vazquez@usc.es; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9081-3018

Keywords: digital journalism, digital native media, innovation, journalism, social media. 

Abstract: This article reflects on the conceptualisation and practise of journalism in European digital native media. The way news is produced and consumed in the digital era knocks down the boundaries that once divided professionals, citizens, and activists. At the same time, significant changes highlighted in recent studies call for a new theoretical and practical approach that goes beyond the dominant perspective of technological determinism. In relation with previous research, we have selected innovative digital media platforms (De Correspondent, Heidi.news, Eldiario.es, IlPost, Mediapart, and Observador), and we have analysed the types of journalism they set out to produce, as gleaned from their public-facing communications and interviews with the platforms’ founders and editors, comparing their stated goals with the journalism they produce and, lastly, we commented on changes in journalism. Digital native media explore renewed fields for journalism. The present analysis allows identifying the emergence of a series of trends in digital native media, which show a coexistence of traditional and new principles. Beyond the technological impact, the new media respond to the needs of society by incorporating the citizen as a reason for its purpose and as a collaborator in production processes. On the other hand, new players and an updated role of journalists come into play with innovative proposals designed for the current multiplatform and mobile scenario.

Idioma: Inglés. 

Publicación: 16 de abril del 2020. 

Volumen: Media and Communication, 2020, Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 5–15. 

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