A new study has found that audience evaluations of emerging media are tied not only to attitudes toward new technologies, but also to the institutional authority audiences attach to journalism.
The findings were featured in “Explaining the AI-journalists credibility gap: generalized and source-specific judgments of news credibility” by University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Journalism Associate Professor Matthew Barnidge and Seungahn Nah, (UFCJC) Dianne Snedaker Chair in Media Trust and research director for the Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology. The article was published in AI & SOCIETY on Sept. 5.
The authors examined why audiences evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) generated news differently from professional journalism. They used a two-wave online survey of adult internet users and bifactor modeling for the study.
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