1st Edition

Tech Giants, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Journalism

By Jason Paul Whittaker Copyright 2019
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the impact of the "Big Five" technology companies – Apple, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft – on journalism and the media industries. It looks at the current role of algorithms and artificial intelligence in curating how we consume media and their increasing influence on the production of the news. Exploring the changes that the technology industry and... Read more



Introduction: Automatic for the People



Chapter 1: The New Ecology



Chapter 2: Distribute and Be Damned



Chapter 3: Zombie Media: Alt-Journalism, Fake News and Robot Editors



Chapter 4: Turing’s Test: Automated Journalism and the Rise of the Posthuman Writer



Chapter 5: Citizens: The Voice of the People in the Age of Machines



Conclusion: The Future of Journalism



Selected Bibliography



Biography

Jason Whittaker is Head of the School of English and Journalism at the University of Lincoln. He worked for fifteen years as a tech journalist and has written extensively on magazine journalism and digital media, most recently as co-editor of the collection Online Journalism in Africa (2013) and as the author of Magazine Production (2016).