Algorithms, AI and automatization in Communication
Posted on 2022-11-10 13:28:14The international journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal calls for a new monograph on the growing use of simulated users and content creators in networks: Algorithms, AI and automatization in Communication, coordinated by Dr. Raquel Victoria Benítez Rojas (raquel.benitezrojas@humber.ca ). The deadline for submission of full papers (through the journal's platform) is April 7th, 2023.
Information manipulation is living a golden age. Not only because we live in a context in which this is produced, developed and amplified practically by itself through social networks, but also because a juncture that gives unbeatable propaganda tools to the many (Baptista et al., 2021), endows even more sophisticated and incredible means to those who can afford the price tag (Urcola Ezeiza & Elezgarai Ibañez, 2021). The proliferation of "bots" or programs that mimic real users in networks, opinion forums and messaging applications is reaching new heights with the newly acquired ability of commercial AI's to modify images. Significantly increasing their ability to influence public opinion through mediated contexts in permanent mass communication portals. Environments where it has been proven that the proliferation of false news known as fake news and adulterated information has been a sign of identity of the media. Flagging the list of legitimate reasons why the famous algorithms have taken by storm the new communication environment; putting in the hands of technological tools the judgment on the monetization or banning of videos on YouTube, or the invisibilization/promotion of posts on Facebook and Twitter.
Just as the coronavirus forced a practical development of videoconferencing and technologies that allow teleworking, this circumstance has promoted a growing presence of algorithms and pages assisted by various automatisms: forcing an adaptation of and to them by all the actors involved. All this amidst a sea of hoaxes, news-noise and disinformation.
Where will the consequences and further development of these automatisms and proto-IA's lead to? We are uniquely positioned in history to witness it.
We invite you to submit your research by April 7, 2023 for this special issue of MHCJ to be published in July 2023.
Keywords: Algorithms, AI, Automation, Communication, Disinformation, Fake news, Democracy.
Priority lines in this monograph:
- Software, big data, data mining and intelligent systems.
- Democracy, political communication, public opinion and automated disinformation.
- Strategic communication and fake news.
- Persuasion and emotion: language, content and artificial intelligence.
- Freedom of expression, ethics and transparency in digitally mediated contexts.
- Digital social networks.
- Journalism and advertising in the face of disinformation in Europe and Latin America.
- Communication, Health, Politics and Technologies. The pandemic of. Automation, bots and algorithms.
References:
Baptista, J. P., Correia, E., Gradim, A., & Piñeiro-Naval, V. (2021). Partidismo: ¿el verdadero aliado de las fake news? Un análisis comparativo del efecto sobre la creencia y la divulgación. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 79, 23-47. https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2021-1509
Urcola Eceiza, E., & Elezgarai Ibáñez, I. (2021). La polarización y echo chambers en el debate de la #LeydeEutanasia en Twitter. Revista de Comunicación de la SEECI, 5454, 187-204. https://doi.org/10.15198/seeci.2021.54.e723
Coordinator:
Dra. Raquel Victoria Benítez Rojas
Humber College, Canadá