Robotisation of News Journalism: the Chronology of the Development, Problems and Prospects

Student: Kokoreva Maria

Supervisor: Yegor Isayev

Educational Programme: Journalism (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2017

The purpose of this research is to point out the transformation of journalistic ethic (fact-checking and accountability predominantly) in the process of its robotization by analyzing editorial policy of media and algorithmic content, mistakes and bias. This study claims that the computational ethic is at the intersection of media ethics (journalism) and cyber ethic (information, Internet) and all team of journalists and engineers generating these algorithms are responsible for automated outcomes. To examine this aspect the paper analyzed the expert interview with a sample of 6 interviewees.

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