High-tech journalism: a sign of the digital era of the third millennium
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https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2021.may.01Keywords:
Digital journalism, High technology, Digital transition, Journalistic metamorphosis, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, AI, Drones, Virtual realityAbstract
High technology is driving most of the innovation and debates in journalism today. Artificial intelligence and journalism are walking hand in hand in the current phase, defined by processes of digitization. Studies on the state of the art of such technology in the media reveal a clear tendency towards the use of more sophisticated tools. Furthermore, this research highlights how journalists are increasingly using such approaches in challenging situations. This shift has thus led to more debate on the threats and opportunities of the introduction of such technologies into a communication ecosystem that is already in need of models that can produce high-quality information. This study thus describes the state of the art on the integration of high technology into daily routines in the media.
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