#Metrics as the new normal: Fascinating talk by Carina Tenor at the #Futures of #Journalism conference, arguing that metrics in newsrooms are used to manage journalists in a certain way. The parallel to science is obvious. #FoJ2023 #FoJ23

Next Keynote at the #Futures of #Journalism Conference in Cardiff by @[email protected] on: „The past is prologue. The future of journalism studies“ #FoJ2023 #FoJ23

The discussion about #AI and #journalism at the Futures in Journalism Conference in Cardiff shows how important it is to have an eye on the histories of the development of what is now called (communicative) AI - and to compare different social domains. In such a broader view, many things in journalism seem far less unique - and in synchronous and diachronic comparison they can be better understood. #FoJ2023 #FoJ23 #ComAI

If you want to know more about the #Futures of Journalism Conference 2023 in Cardiff, there is a very good blog entry by @snurb: https://snurb.info/node/2834 Once again, I am struck by the fact that we in the sociology of media have a more critical understanding of „innovation“ - #innovation is the construction of the new as new (and possibly disruptive), not simply a "new" technology which diffuses. And every social construction is contested and embedded in #power relations. #FoJ2023 #FoJ23

Futures of #Journalism conference at Cardiff University starts. #FoJ2023 #FoJ23

The #CfP for the 2023 Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff (#FoJ23) is out. Deadline for submissions (300 words max) is February 17, 2023. Keynotes by @journoscholar and Jane B. Singer. https://cardiffjournalism.co.uk/foj2023/