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Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 4-2025

Journal Title

Digital Journalism

Volume Number

online before print

Issue Number

online before print

First Page

online before print

Last Page

online before print

DOI

10.1080/21670811.2025.2490604

Version

Pre-print: the initial article submitted to the journal for consideration (prior to peer review)

Disciplines

Communication | Communication Technology and New Media | Critical and Cultural Studies | Journalism Studies

Abstract

This essay pushes against hype about generative AI in both journalism and journalism scholarship. Emergent questions around the black box nature of AI, concerns about information disorder, and problems with the theft of intellectual property are recontextualized with a new focus – one that demands scholars think outside of the newsroom, center the natural and the cultural elements of journalism, and ultimately, remain critical about the always already new of new technologies and powerful companies looking to devalue human labor. A warning is issued about generative AI and journalism more generally, pushing us to study the importance of remembering unequal distributions of power and their connections to the rise of authoritarianism.

Notes

This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Digital Journalism on April 9, 2025, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2490604

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