Making News
The 'Robot' and the Journalist: Metaphorical Framing of Artificial Intelligence in Dutch Newspapers View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Jessy De Cooker
Metaphors are linguistic tools for talking about complex topics. They help people understand and make sense of new phenomena. Traditionally, journalists are the main source of scientific information and news around innovations. Previous studies show that journalists use their own metaphorical terms and frames when conceptualising new technological developments. This paper, based on 107 articles from Dutch newspapers about Artificial Intelligence (AI), identifies three main metaphorical threads in reporting on a technology that has been recognised as a system technology in need of demystification. Research on how Dutch news media write about AI, and their use of metaphors surrounding this technology in Dutch news media is very limited and not focused on a historical perspective. This paper employs Critical Metaphor Analysis to examine the most frequently used words, metaphors and concepts around AI in five Dutch daily newspapers by covering the years 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021. Within this paper’s corpus, AI is being metaphorically described as 1) digital intangible; 2) human and; 3) assistant. These findings identify ways in which Dutch journalists convey certain assumptions and worldviews about AI in their writing through the use of metaphors. Also, from Charteris-Black's purpose classification, types of metaphors and possible ideological purposes were examined and evaluated. Together, this might help journalists to gain critical insight in their use of metaphors when covering topics as artificial intelligence and add to academical knowledge in which metaphors are discursively employed to inform a general public on technological innovations.
News Prioritization in the Era of `Green Growth’: Study of Two Indian Dailies View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Sangeetha Unnithan
As India dons the role of G20 presidency, the country’s commitments to sustainable growth is all set to be intensely scrutinized on the global stage in the coming months. Prompted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s audacious declaration of an ambitious 5-point agenda for climate action at COP-26 in Glasgow 2021, the country has apparently been set on a path of a rigorous green growth. While the political will demonstrated by the Indian government in the area of environment conservation and climate action has been commendable, it will be worthwhile to study how much of this national policy has percolated to the Indian media and polity. Is the government’s green agenda a prominent part of the mainstream discourse in India? How is the Indian media viewing and contributing to these green objectives? The study attempts to gain a perspective on this by analyzing news prioritization in two of India’s leading national dailies – Times of India and The Hindu. The study includes front page analysis of all issues of the two newspapers over a span of six months, starting from Feb 1, 2023. Apart from the quantitative analysis of stories on the front page news, the paper also delves into the qualitative aspects of the news coverage such as treatment of stories, rhetoric, impact of media routines, etc.
Media Representation of LGBTQI+ People in Mongolia since 1992 View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Ariunzaya Norovsuren, Narangerel Tseren, Bat Oyun Sukhbold, Unursaikhan Tugj, Mendkhuu Ganbaatar
In the 1990s, when the social and political system fundamentally changed from a socialist system to a democratic system, Mongolian society as a whole was in turmoil. This social and contemporary situation became an important factor in fundamentally changing the media's activities, articles, programs, and content. Also, from this period, the characters of sexual minorities were introduced in Mongolian feature films. But mostly gay people were portrayed in a negative light. Also, there was not much news and information on this topic. However, in recent years, information about the LGBTIQ community has been widely disseminated in media and social media in Mongolia. In this way, conditions were created to obtain relatively balanced information about sexual minorities in the public. Since 1992, we have conducted qualitative and quantitative research on the representation of LGBTQI+ individuals in Mongolian media articles and programs. As part of content quality research, We aimed to determine the prevalence of positive, negative, and neutral attitudes towards LGBTQI+ individuals. and what changes are occurring in the content of articles and programs about LGBTQI+. There are not many articles and programs on the above topic. As part of our research, we have quantified the frequency of media coverage of LGBTQI+ topics. Additionally, we distributed a questionnaire to assess the media's position and information policy. We also met with people known as sexual minorities and studied through interviews how they receive information about LGBTQI people in Mongolia through the Ministry of Education and Culture.
Featured The World Will Never Be the Same Again with ChatGPT View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Claudia Ribeiro Pereira Nunes, Rafael Ribeiro Gonçalves
The world of journalism has been evolving for decades, with new technologies and innovations changing how news is reported and consumed. One of the most exciting new developments in the field is using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to enhance the speed and accuracy of news reporting. And at the forefront of this revolution is Chat GPT, a language model developed by OpenAI. In this context, the research question is: Does ChatGPT change journalism? Journalists should know ChatGPT’s major flaw: it cannot be trusted. ChatGPT was trained by inputting the entirety of the internet, and it responds to prompts by making predictions on the most likely answer to queries. Using this model sometimes generates a solution that’s not factually correct. We have three preliminary considerations. First, we see ChatGPT and tools used negatively to undermine trust in information environments, pushing people away from public discourse to increasingly homogenous communities. Second, we see a range of fascinating on-the-ground experiments and research emerging around how we as a society adapt to image and text generation tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E to use these incredible advances in ways that genuinely benefit the community while limiting harms, particularly to the most vulnerable. Third, will see growing attention at the federal level to build meaningful guardrails around the development and deployment of these and other AI systems.
