Tech Giants, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Journalism

ISBN-13: 9780367661090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 190 str.

Jason Paul Whittaker

Opis

This book examines the impact of the so-called Big Five technology companies – Apple, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft – on the media landscape more generally and journalism in particular. It considers the impact of social media and AI on such things as fake news in the post-truth age.

Spis treści

Introduction: Automatic for the People

Chapter 1: The New Ecology

Chapter 2: Distribute and Be Damned

Chapter 3: Zombie Media: Alt-Journalism, Fake News and Robot Editors

Chapter 4: Turing’s Test: Automated Journalism and the Rise of the Posthuman Writer

Chapter 5: Citizens: The Voice of the People in the Age of Machines

Conclusion: The Future of Journalism

Selected Bibliography

O autorze

Jason Whittaker is Head of the School of English and Journalism at the University of Lincoln. He worked for fifteen years as a tech journalist and has written extensively on magazine journalism and digital media, most recently as co-editor of the collection Online Journalism in Africa (2013) and as the author of Magazine Production (2016).