Exploring the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Journalism

Santosh Kumar Biswal (PhD), Associate Professor and Head, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.Anand J Kulkarni (PhD), Professor & Associate Director, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, MIT World Peace University, Pune, MH, India.

“Technology has always been a disruptor of the status-quo and creator of new paradigms. News-media has experienced this change from the beginning. The latest entrant in the long list of disruptive technologies is AI, which is changing the media ecology with a great speed. New forms of journalism are being created. New questions related to journalistic ethics are emerging in the light of intersection of AI and journalism. This book, one of the pioneers in this domain, discusses these issues and attempts to answer some of the emerging questions. It is useful for understanding what AI is doing and can do in the field of journalism and other social studies and how one should effectively engage with it.”Professor Mrinal Chatterjee, Regional Director, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Odisha, India“Generative Artificial Intelligence is very easy to use, which has led to its rapid uptake and current widespread use. With it, however, come a series of very important considerations. As automatic text generation becomes increasingly sophisticated and nearly indistinguishable from an author’s creation, questions of ethics, copyright, truthfulness of information, and provability of statements come to the forefront. This book provides an intriguing set of possibilities, and a novel journey into uncharted territory that is both compelling and realistic. It is an enjoyable, thought provoking read.”Professor Luigi Benedicenti, Dean, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Canada

• 1. Introduction to Journalism: The Journey and Experience from Printing Press to ChatGPT 2. Understanding Artificial Intelligence3. From Printing Press to ChatGPT: Understanding the Changing Role of Technologies in Journalism4. Deliberating Theorical Justifications in the Prism of Journalism and Artificial Intelligence: A Revisit of Theories in Media and Communication5. Situating Artificial Intelligence in the Space of Development Journalism: A Revisit of Development Communication6. Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism: Situating the Changing Nature of Technologies in the Ecology of News Media7. Data Journalism and Artificial Intelligence: Interrogating the Data with Machine8. Data Journalism with Artificial Intelligence: An Ambivalence of Good and Bad9. Artificial Intelligence in Fostering Citizen Journalism: Investigating the New Form of Participatory Journalism10. Deliberating Artificial Intelligence in the Prism of Citizen Journalism: Comparative Perspectives and Competing Explanations11. Socio-Cultural and Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Society: Understanding the Mediating Role of Journalism12. Incorporation of Artificial Intelligence into Newsrooms: Negotiating with Newer Ethical Issues and Responsibilities in Journalism13.: Foundations, Ferment and Future of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism