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Assistance or Resistance? Evaluating the Intersection of Automated Journalism and Journalistic Role Conceptions
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Abstract Newsrooms are a social context in which numerous relationships exist and influence news work - be it with other journalists, the audience, and technology. As some of these relations change due to technological innovations, new hybrid contexts - technologies that are interwoven with newsroom values, ... view more
Newsrooms are a social context in which numerous relationships exist and influence news work - be it with other journalists, the audience, and technology. As some of these relations change due to technological innovations, new hybrid contexts - technologies that are interwoven with newsroom values, routines, and socio-cultural experiences - can emerge. One key question is how journalists conceptualise and interact with such technologies, and to what degree they retain (creative) agency in the process. Therefore, this study evaluates the intersection of automated journalism and journalistic role conceptions. Using Hanitzsch’s and Vos’s circular model of journalistic roles (2017) and Deuze's understanding of journalism as an ideology (2005) as a theoretical framework, this study examines some of the discursive aspects of automated journalism by asking: To what extent are journalistic roles (a) challenged or (b) advanced as a result of automated journalism? Our findings more closely align with the latter, pointing to a strong sense of discursive maintenance of journalists’ roles and their core skillset and thus suggesting a high degree of ideological continuity in the face of industrial disruption. It concludes with an agenda for future research and stresses that at times when journalism and automation intersect, the field would benefit from incorporating emerging conceptual frameworks such as human–machine communication.... view less
Keywords
journalism; algorithm; digitalization; new technology; news
Classification
Communicator Research, Journalism
Free Keywords
algorithmic journalism; automated journalism; computational journalism; newsroom
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 16-26
Journal
Media and Communication, 8 (2020) 3
Issue topic
Algorithms and Journalism: Exploring (Re)Configurations
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed