Automated Journalism at the Intersection of Politics and Black Culture

Colin H. Campbell is an independent researcher and holds a PhD from Howard University’s Cathy Hughes School of Communications.

• Chapter 1: Technological Determinism in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceChapter 2: Algorithmic BeginningsChapter 3: Understanding Automated JournalismChapter 4: Addressing the Issue at the Intersection of Journalism and AIChapter 5: Artificial Intelligence in JournalismChapter 6: Media Representations of African AmericansChapter 7: News Media and RaceChapter 8: Agenda Setting and Framing: AI in JournalismChapter 9: Agenda-Setting Theory and Framing Theory in Mass MediaChapter 10: Blackcentric MediaChapter 11: White-Owned: Mainstream MediaChapter 12: Automated Expressions in JournalismChapter 13: Interrogating Artificial Intelligence in JournalismChapter 14: Understanding the Investigative ProcedureChapter 15: Behind the Research

Campbell provocatively brings readers to the intersection of journalism, politics, and culture. He advances the bold claim that modern technologies, like AI and algorithms, deepen humans’ reliance on digital communication through media use, e.g., online news consumption, and promote problems such as misinformation and information silos. Campbell’s examination of how digital journalism's processes (re)produce established racial biases is poignant. Campbell centers the concept of automated journalism to demonstrate how advanced communication technologies, insofar as they are human-dependent, display complex ethical entanglements with the bright and dark elements of human behavior and societal structures. He specifically connects digital journalism to the experiences and representations of Black Americans, and examines the implications of the continued evolution of these communication technologies on this group's experiences of subjugation in society. Overall, Campbell argues that as humans become more dependent on this technology, they deepen their commitment to the positive and negative consequences of this technology. He offers compelling insights into the inexorable relationship between humans’ insatiable appetite for information and its adverse effects in the digital age. Automated Journalism is a must read for scholars and students in journalism, media studies, communication, and critical cultural studies. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals.