AI, news, & the dynamics of control in the media ecosystem
Some reading recommendations
2 min readApr 7, 2024
Reading recommendations
Here some readings I found useful on this topic. To make it easier to navigate these, I have grouped them by topic.
Control
- Beniger, J. R. (1986). The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Harvard University Press.
Large language models and generative AI
- House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee: Large language models and generative AI (1st Report of Session 2023–24; House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee). (2024). House of Lords. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5804/ldselect/ldcomm/54/54.pdf
- Wolfram, S. (2023, February 14). What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? Stephen Wolfram. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/
AI and the technology industry
- Metz, C., Kang, C., Frenkel, S., Thompson, S. A., & Grant, N. (2024, April 6). How tech giants cut corners to harvest data for A.I. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html
- Vipra, J., & Myers West, S. (2023). Computational Power and AI (p. 32). AI Now Institute. https://ainowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AI-Now_Computational-Power-an-AI.pdf
- Ahmed, N., Wahed, M., & Thompson, N. C. (2023). The growing influence of industry in AI research. Science, 379(6635), 884–886. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade2420
AI, journalism, and technology companies
- Simon, F. M. (2022). Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy. Digital Journalism, 10(10), 1823–1854. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2022.2063150
- Simon, F. M. (2023). Escape Me If You Can: How AI Reshapes News Organisations’ Dependency on Platform Companies. Digital Journalism, 12(2), 149–170. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2287464
- Papa, V., & Kouros, T. (2023). Do Facebook and Google Care about Journalism? Mapping the Relationship between Affordances of GNI and FJP Tools and Journalistic Norms. Digital Journalism, 0(0), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2211626
- Nielsen, R. K., & Ganter, S. A. (2022). The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society. Oxford University Press.
- Simon, F. M. (2024). AI Search and Implications for Publishers https://felixsimon.medium.com/ai-search-implications-for-publishers-and-the-public-sphere-db931b6c8274
AI, journalism and the public arena
- Simon, F. M. (2024). Artificial Intelligence in the News. How AI Retools, Rationalizes, and Reshapes Journalism and the Public Arena (p. 46). Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University. https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/artificial-intelligence-in-the-news.php
- Jungherr, A., & Schroeder, R. (2023). Artificial intelligence and the public arena. Communication Theory, 33(2–3), 164–173. https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtad006