The debate about fake news is more relevant than ever. The diffusion of untruthful content can intentionally serve purposes such as financial and political interests, affecting society and consequently democracy. Recent important events, such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, highlight the significance of news verification, the growing need for fact-checking, and…
Prof. Andreas Kaplan, Dean ESCP Business School Paris, Sorbonne Alliance Within only a decade, social media, enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, might have gone from being a facilitator of democracy to a severe threat of the same. Around ten years ago, it was said that social media would restore power to citizens.…
As a radio journalist for years, I am interested in the development of media technology and the impact on media landscape. I closely followed the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in Chinese media industry. In December 2017, China’s Xinhua News Agency launched its AI Media Brain platform. In March 2018, the agency premiered the first…
“My career is a quest to use the computer as a medium to spur the imagination and galvanize people to critically reflect upon society.” Prof. D. Fox Harrell, MIT CSAIL 0. Computational Narrative Professor Fox Harrell on computational narratives: “Computational narratives take many forms including virtual and augmented reality systems, immersive experiences, videogames, electronic literature,…
