Journalism and AI: global and latin american trends in scientific articles (2018-2022)

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a fundamental role in the 21st century with broad potentials and challenges. In journalism, AI has been applied and experimented with, seen as an ally to journalistic work, and at times as a threat. Recognizing its interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and cross-cutting nature in society, this article, employing a quantitative and qualitative exploratory approach, aims to identify the main trends in the discourse on AI and Journalism in scientific articles between 2018 and 2022. Additionally, it seeks to understand the Latin American perspectives in this context. The methodology includes a bibliometric review of a corpus of 468 articles retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science. Furthermore, it employs content analysis and similarity techniques to examine articles published in Latin American journals (n=18). Both global and Latin American trends encompass a wide scope of discussions, such as misinformation, the need for human journalistic mediation, changes and skills, beyond automation and tools.