Digitisation, AI and algorithms in African journalism and media contexts : practice, policy and critical literacies

AI, robots, algorithms, and data/metrics are pervasive throughout the media industry, increasingly dictating and rapidly changing journalistic and newsroom practices, cultures, and norms - from editorial agenda setting to news production processes, to audience and advertiser targeting. Social media...

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Other Authors Dralega, Carol Azungi (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
Subjects
Artificial intelligence > Africa.
Journalism > Africa > Technological innovations.
Literacy.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781804551370
DOI10.1108/9781804551356
Physical Description1 online resource (268 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Forward / Martin Ndlela
  • Part I: AI and Algorithms in Journalism and media practice
  • Chapter 1. Towards automated fact-checking in Africa: the experience with artificial intelligence at Africa Check / Irene Larraz
  • Chapter 2. Between Utopia and dystopia: Investigating journalism perceptions of AI deployment in Community media newsrooms in South Africa / Blessing Makwambeni,Trust Matsilele, and John G Bulani
  • Chapter 3. AI and the algorithmic-turn in journalism practice in Eastern Africa: perceptions, practice and challenges / Carol Azungi Dralega
  • Chapter 4. New challenges old tactics: How Uganda Newsrooms combat Fake news / Florence Namasinga Selnes, Gerald Walulya, and Ivan Nathaniel Lukanda
  • Chapter 5. Newsday and the Herald's inclusion of disabled people in the use of digital media in Zimbabwe / Witness Roya and Sandiso Ngcobo
  • Part II: Policy, Governance, Indigenization of Digital Innovation and Critical literacies
  • Chapter 6. A comparative study of AI policy frameworks on Journalism practice in sub-Saharan Africa / Carol Azungi Dralega, Wise Kwame Osei,Daniel Kudakwashe Mpala, Gezahgn Berhie Kidanu, Bai Santigie Kanu, and Amia Pamela
  • Chapter 7. Analysis of Facebook and Twitter usage in Ghana's 2020 presidential and Parliamentary elections / Kodwo Jonas Anson Boateng and Redeemer Buatsi
  • Chapter 8. Conceptualizing data-driven journalism and the quest for good governance in Nigeria / Toyosi Olugbenga Samson Owolabi and reheemat Adeniran
  • Chapter 9. Technology Indigenisation and Popularisation for Life Transformation in East Africa / Margaret Jjuuko and Emmanuel Munyarukumbuzi
  • Chapter 10. An agenda for developing critical literacies for journalism education in an era of datafication / Carol Azungi Dralega.

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