*CFP* "CHALLENGES OF JOURNALISM IN 21ST CENTURY: AUTOMATED JOURNALISM AND AI JOURNALISM", INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES AND JOURNALISM CONFERENCE

Challenges of Journalism in 21st Century: Automated Journalism and AI Journalism

24th September, 2020

Faculty of Social Scciences, Charles University, Praga

Keynote speaker
Professor Charlie Beckett (LSE Media and Communications, POLIS)

During the last decade we were witnessing the rise of automated journalism and application of artificial intelligence tools in the newsrooms. From simple use of templates to highly sophisticated automated content production, omnipresent algorithms, news on social networks, fake news production and its detection became our everyday media practice. AI has slowly but unstoppably entered the media landscape. The rise of AI brought wide scale of problems and questions. Organizers call for proposal addressing, but not limited, to following themes.

Theme 1: Newsgathering

• Data gathering, real time monitoring, data harvesting
• Data verification, automated fact checking
• Crunching big data, data extraction
• Applications of AI journalism – case studies

Theme 2: News Production

• Text creation
• Automated narratives from big data
• Visual materials creation (videos, graphics, infographics)
• Influence of AI on newsroom organization, routines
• Copyright of AI produced content

Theme 3: News Distribution

• Targeted distribution
• Personalization, algorithms, social bubbles
• Human vs. machine interaction, human supervision
• Information correlation
• Fake news elimination vs. fake news production

Theme 4: AI Ethics

• New skills in the newsroom related to AI adoption
• Journalistic education related to AI journalism
• Threats and opportunities of AI journalism
• Responsibility for AI journalism

Important dates

Deadline for abstract submissions before July 31, 2020

Notification of acceptance will be sent before August 31, 2020

Deadline for conference registration: September 15, 2020

Date of the conference: September 24, 2020


Conference fees

Early birds before July 31, 2020: Students 50 Euro, Regular 75 Euro

After: Students 75 Euro, Regular 100 Euro


Practical information

Abstract should be written in English, contain clear outline of argument, and between 300 and 500 words long.

Presentations should be no longer than 12 minutes.

Conference will take place at Faculty of Social Scciences, Charles University in Prague. Conference will be streamed online and recorded for further access.


Contact

Send the abstracts to: aijournalism@fsv.cuni.cz