Artificial Intelligence in the Media Industry: Applications, Innovations and Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, innovation in information technology (IT) has been a crosscutting issue in many areas. In this context, research has been addressing not only the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in the IT sector itself but also the way AI, seen as a subfield of IT, is transforming other industries. However, there is still a lack of studies regarding how AI in its various branches – from machine learning to data mining – is impacting the media industry, both on the editorial (journalism) and on the creative (entertainment) side. How is AI being applied to counter fake news? How are newsrooms using it to engage, create interactivity, or generate news through big data? How is AI enhancing storytelling? What challenges does it bring to the media industry? These are a few examples of the potential of research that this Special Issue addresses.

The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together contributions that relate AI with the media industry in the context of applications, innovations, and challenges.

Potential topics of the Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:

• applications of AI or related methods in media platforms (for example, written press, cinema, radio, television, and advertising);
• applications of AI or related innovations in newsrooms routines and practices;
• applications of AI or related innovations in enhanced storytelling and emergent digital formats;
• applications of AI or related innovations in dealing with misinformation and fake news;
• applications of AI and related methods in social media, including qualitative and quantitative analysis of information and interactions;
• applications of AI or related innovations in engaging with the user;
• applications of AI or related methods in media education;
• ethical, economical, political, social, and other challenges related to the application of AI in the media industry;
• evaluation of AI and related methods in media contexts (for example, performance and experience, value, credibility, and utility).

Research articles which describe original work, including methods, techniques, applications, tools, or survey papers, are welcome. We encourage the inclusion of comparisons with alternative methods. Authors may also wish to provide a short publicly accessible video.

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• artificial intelligence
• media industry
• machine learning
• data mining
• journalism
• digital media
• ethics of artificial intelligence