AI, robots, algorithms, and data/metrics are pervasive throughout the media industry, increasingly dictating and rapidly changing journalistic and newsroom practices, cultures, and norms - from editorial agenda setting to news production processes, to audience and advertiser targeting. Social media platforms in particular have been at the core of the AI and algorithmic turn, offering real-time consumer analytics and newsfeeds for insatiable and borderless digital citizens. The algorithms within these platforms make them powerful news aggregators, redirecting consumer habits and advertisers, making them vital in the journalism practice and media viability across the globe.
Despite this, there is a shortage of scholarship on AI, algorithms and data-driven journalism from the global South, and especially in Sub-Saharan African contexts. Digitisation, AI and Algorithms in African Journalism and Media Contexts moves the focus from the West, addressing the significant knowledge gaps relating to the current state of AI, algorithms and data-driven journalism, as well as the implications for political, social, cultural, markets, media viability and journalism education.
This timely collection offers new knowledge on key issues surrounding automation and data-driven media and journalism practice in post-truth, post-human and post-Covid African contexts. It is a vital resource for researchers, educators, media students, academics, advocacy groups, media practitioners, developers and policy makers, both in African countries and internationally.
Forward; Martin Ndlela
Part I: AI and Algorithms in Journalism and media practice
Chapter 1. Towards automated fact-checking in Africa: the experience with artificial intelligence at Africa Check; Irene Larraz
Chapter 2. Between Utopia and dystopia: Investigating journalism perceptions of AI deployment in Community media newsrooms in South Africa; Blessing Makwambeni,Trust Matsilele, and John G Bulani
Chapter 3. AI and the algorithmic-turn in journalism practice in Eastern Africa: perceptions, practice and challenges; Carol Azungi Dralega
Chapter 4. New challenges old tactics: How Uganda Newsrooms combat Fake news; Florence Namasinga Selnes, Gerald Walulya, and Ivan Nathaniel Lukanda
Chapter 5. Newsday and the Herald’s inclusion of disabled people in the use of digital media in Zimbabwe; Witness Roya and Sandiso Ngcobo
Part II: Policy, Governance, Indigenization of Digital Innovation and Critical literacies
Chapter 6. A comparative study of AI policy frameworks on Journalism practice in sub-Saharan Africa; Carol Azungi Dralega, Wise Kwame Osei,Daniel Kudakwashe Mpala, Gezahgn Berhie Kidanu, Bai Santigie Kanu, and Amia Pamela
Chapter 7. Analysis of Facebook and Twitter usage in Ghana’s 2020 presidential and Parliamentary elections; Kodwo Jonas Anson Boateng and Redeemer Buatsi
Chapter 8. Conceptualizing data-driven journalism and the quest for good governance in Nigeria; Toyosi Olugbenga Samson Owolabi and reheemat Adeniran
Chapter 9. Technology Indigenisation and Popularisation for Life Transformation in East Africa; Margaret Jjuuko and Emmanuel Munyarukumbuzi
Chapter 10. An agenda for developing critical literacies for journalism education in an era of datafication; Carol Azungi Dralega
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