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- Clerwall, Christer, 1973-
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Assessing the qualities of automated content
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The advent of new technologies has always spurred questions about changes in journalism – its content, its means of production, and its consumption. A quite recent development in the realm of digital journalism is software-generated content, i.e. automatically produced content. Companies such as Automated Insights offer services that, according to themselves “humanizes big data sets by spotting patterns, trends and key insights and describing those findings in plain English that is indistinguishable from that produced by a human writer” (Automated Insights, 2012).This paper seeks to investigate how readers perceive software-generated content in relation to similar content written by a journalist. This is investigated through the following empirical research questions:RQ1 – How is software-generated content perceived by readers, in regards to overall quality and credibility?RQ2 – Are the software-generated content discernable from similar content written by human journalists?The study utilizes an experimental methodology where respondents were subjected to different news articles that were written by a journalist or software-generated. The respondents were then asked to answer questions about how they perceived the article; its overall quality, credibility, objectiveness etc.The paper presents the results from a first small-scale study and they indicate that the software-generated content is perceived as, for example, descriptive, boring and objective, but not necessarily discernable from content written by journalists.The paper discusses the results of the study and its implication for journalism practice.
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- Clerwall, Christer, 1973-
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Enter the Robot Journalist : Users' perceptions of automated content
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journalism Practice. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1751-2786 .- 1751-2794. ; 8:5, s. 519-531
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The advent of new technologies has always spurred questions about changes in journalism—its content, its means of production, and its consumption. A quite recent development in the realm of digital journalism is software-generated content, i.e. automatically produced content. This paper seeks to investigate how readers perceive software-generated content in relation to similar content written by a journalist. The study utilizes an experimental methodology where respondents were subjected to different news articles that were written either by a journalist or were software-generated. The respondents were then asked to answer questions about how they perceived the article—its overall quality, credibility, objectivity, etc. The paper presents the results from an initial small-scale study with findings suggesting that while the software-generated content is perceived as descriptive and boring, it is also considered to be objective although not necessarily discernible from content written by journalists. The paper discusses the results of the study and its implication for journalism practice.
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- Clerwall, Christer, 1973-
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Nyhetskonsumtion i Värmland
- 2012
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Ingår i: Värmländska landskap. - Karlstad : Karlstad University Press. - 9789186637040 ; , s. 387-403
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Clerwall, Christer, 1973-, et al.
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Public Trust and Journalistic Transparency : An experimental study of disclosure and participatory effects in online news
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Media matter. Most citizens’ in contemporary democracies get their information about current affairs and politics through the media. Political communication studies have for long time analysed the interplay between media content and journalistic style and political attitudes and public trust in political institutions. This paper adds to this discussion by addressing another dimension: the possible impact of journalistic transparency – offered in online-journalism – on political trust.Methodologically, the study was based on a web-based experiment including 1,320 respondents. The treatment groups comprised the same version of an online news article with additional indicators for disclosure transparency and participatory transparency. The article covered a local political issue and politicians form both ruling and opposition political parties appeared in the text.The results indicate that transparency effects on political trust may be overestimated. This experimental study did not confirm any significant positive correlation between transparency and the public trust towards local politicians appearing in the news.
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- Clerwall, Christer, 1973-
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Who wrote this? Users' perception of software-generated content in online news
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The advent of new technologies has always spurred questions about changes injournalism – its content, its means of production, and its consumption. A quite recentdevelopment in the realm of digital journalism is software-generated content, i.e.automatically produced content.This paper seeks to investigate how readers perceive software-generated content inrelation to similar content written by (human) journalists. This is investigated through the following empirical research questions:RQ1 – How is software-generated content perceived by readers, in regards to overallquality and credibility?RQ2 – Are the software-generated content discernable from similar content written byhuman journalists?
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- Karlsson, Michael, 1970-, et al.
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Patterns and origins in the evolution of multimedia on broadsheet and tabloid news sites : Swedish online news 2005-2010
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journalism Studies. - : Taylor and Francis Online. - 1461-670X .- 1469-9699. ; 13:4, s. 550-565
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This longitudinal study compares the development and implementation of multimedia on Swedish broadsheet and tabloid online news sites between 2005 and 2010. It also seeks the reasons behind these developments by interviewing journalists working on the sites. The results show that the initial implementation of multimedia was slow but increased sharply in pace between 2007 and 2008. By 2010, on average, one in four news items had some element of multimedia attached to them. Furthermore, results show that it was the quality papers that were the quickest off the mark rather than tabloids. The antecedents for this advance seem to be a mix of technological capacities, professional norms and economic needs.
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- Karlsson, Michael, 1970-, et al.
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The Emergence of Convergence in Swedish Online News
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Ingår i: Transcultural Communication. - Hamburg.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Convergence is often said to have great impact on journalism. More specifically, multimedia, as one dimension of convergence, is predicted to have impact on the journalistic skill-set. Moreover, convergence, in the form of online content syndication, has been suggested to affect the quality and diversity of online news. Some studies indicate that convergence does not have any significant effect, whereas others indicate that it does. So far, few studies have investigated the impact of convergence on online news over time. The small number of existing longitudinal studies has only investigated the existence of convergence (in various aspects) on American news sites, which indicate presence but not the level of impact. Furthermore, none of the longitudinal studies examine the reasons for the development, as they focus on news content and not the processes behind the creation of news. Consequently, the purpose of this study is to examine impact of convergence on online news content over time as well as the reasons for this impact.Previous scholarship highlights that convergence is a term with many facets that may be investigated on numerous levels. In this paper two dimensions of convergence of news content are investigated: multimedia and online content syndication. Multimedia refers to content which integrates images, text, graphics, moving images, and/or sound in a way that is not possible in a regular paper magazine. Online content syndication refers to content presented on the web site, but which is originated (and sometimes stored) on another web site.The paper studies the evolution of convergence on four major Swedish news sites, and it presents results from a two-legged study comprising interviews with executives at news sites and a longitudinal quantitative content analysis of news sites spanning from 2005 to 2010. Preliminary results indicate that all four news sites increasingly adopt multimedia and online content syndication over time. Since 2008 1 in 5 news stories has some multimedia features and since 2009 1 in 6 news stories are syndicated on average. Furthermore, the rise of multimedia in news content is concentrated to 2007 and 2008 on all four news sites while the implementation of content syndication is more dispersed.The main reasons given for adopting multimedia is that the technology and software now supports multimedia content. The main reasons stated for adopting online content syndication are economic incentives and that it is seen as a way to help the readers find information in an information-rich environment. The development and the reasons behind it, as well as its implications for journalism are discussed.
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