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Story-ing AI – mini-narrative patterns of contemporary online science journalism
This study explores the range of discursive patterns used to present artificial intelligence as a revolutionary but controversial technology in online science journalism. It uses a triangulated dataset of over a hundred recent mini-narratives sourced from New Scientist, Nature daily briefings, and Scientific American to reconstruct typical storylines in the thematic domains of research, business, and society, and to map their narrative trajectories (utopian, dystopian). The qualitative analysis uses the categories of agency, sentiment, point of view, and news value to capture these outlets’ contributions to the evolving sociotechnical imaginary of AI technologies. While acknowledging some risks of AI technologies, elite commercial science journalism highlights the benefits and celebrates the scientific advancements produced with or by AI. Also, AI technologies are communicated strategically to increase newsworthiness, through diverse complications in storylines with oscillating sentiments and a focus on impacts and novelty. This tends to prime news recipients to accept the inevitable technological progress and normalizes algorithms as increasingly independent research-performing agents.
期刊介绍:
Discourse & Communication is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles that pay specific attention to the qualitative, discourse analytical approach to issues in communication research. Besides the classical social scientific methods in communication research, such as content analysis and frame analysis, a more explicit study of the structures of discourse (text, talk, images or multimedia messages) allows unprecedented empirical insights into the many phenomena of communication. Since contemporary discourse study is not limited to the account of "texts" or "conversation" alone, but has extended its field to the study of the cognitive, interactional, social, cultural.