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- Brantner, Cornelia, et al.
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Covering technology risks and responsibilities: Automation, artificial intelligence, robotics, and algorithms in the media
- 2021
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The rapid diffusion of automation, algorithms, robots, and artificial intelligence is accompanied by risks such as loss of jobs, ethical concerns, bias, and security threats. This leads to questions regarding the responsibility for damages and the development of solutions. Since media play a central role for public representation and perception of risks and responsibility, this paper explores how automation is covered in the news. While existing studies typically focus on particular technologies, this paper analyses the automation debate comprehensively and covers reporting on automation, algorithms, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Longitudinal media content analysis of three decades of Austrian news reveals an increasing and overall optimistic coverage of automation. However, algorithms are more frequently associated with risks and treated less positively than robotics and AI. Analysis of the attribution of responsibility shows that responsibilities are less covered than risks and that industry stakeholders are at the center of the responsibility networks.
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- Brantner, Cornelia, et al.
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Covering Technology Risks and Responsibility : Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Algorithms in the Media
- 2021
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In: International Journal of Communication. - : University of Southern California. - 1932-8036. ; 15, s. 5074-5098
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Rapid technological advances in automation, algorithms, robots, and artificial intelligence (AI) entail risks, such as the loss of jobs, biases, and security threats, which raises questions about responsibility for the damage incurred by such risks and the development of solutions to ameliorate them. Because media play a central role in the representation and perception of technological risks and responsibility, this study explores the news coverage of automation. While previous research has focused on specific technologies, this study conducts a comprehensive analysis of the debate on automation, algorithms, robotics, and AI, including tonality, risks, and responsibility. The longitudinal media content analysis of three decades of Austrian news reports revealed that overall, the coverage increased, and it was optimistic in tone. However, algorithms were more frequently associated with risks and less positivity than other automation areas. Robotics received the most positive and the least risk-related coverage. Moreover, industry stakeholders were at the center of the responsibility network in the media discourse.
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- Saurwein, Florian, et al.
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Comparing attributions of responsibility in media coverage of social media algorithms and social companions
- 2023
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The diffusion of algorithms, robots, and artificial intelligence is accompanied by public debates about opportunities and risks of automation and responsibility for problems and the development of solutions. Since media coverage plays a central role in shaping public perception of automation, this study examines the Austrian media discourses on responsibility in two automation fields: social media algorithms and social companions. The comparative content analysis reveals that social media algorithms are more critically covered than social companions. When it comes to social media algorithms, responsibility issues are often raised by journalists, and responsibility is primarily assigned to the Internet platforms. To the contrary, risks of social robotics are articulated predominantly by experts, and seen as challenges for society, economy, and research alike. Moreover, media provide different perspectives to the question whether algorithms in social media and social robots have agency and can assume responsibility themselves.
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- Saurwein, Florian, et al.
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Responsibility networks in media discourses on automation : A comparative analysis of social media algorithms and social companions
- 2023
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In: New Media and Society. - : Sage Publications. - 1461-4448 .- 1461-7315.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The diffusion of algorithms, robots, and artificial intelligence has sparked public debates regarding opportunities, risks, and responsibility for addressing problems and developing solutions. Since media cover and shape sociotechnical imaginaries, this study investigates the Austrian media discourses on responsibility in two domains of automation: social media algorithms and social companions. Using a machine learning approach, relevant articles were identified, followed by a manual comparative content analysis. The findings indicate that media coverage of social media algorithms tends to be more critical compared to social companions. In the debate about social media algorithms, journalists emerge as the most common speakers raising responsibility issues and primarily attributing them to Internet platform providers. Conversely, responsibility for social robotics is predominantly articulated by experts, considering it as a responsibility shared by society, economy, and research. Furthermore, the media present different perspectives on the agency and responsibility of social media algorithms and social robots themselves.
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