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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 6d

Come work with us 🚨

We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.

Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.

Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.

DL 🗓️ November 1

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab

Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 NEW PIECE

Most people want platforms (not governments) to be responsible for moderating content, according to a new piece from our own Craig T. Robertson, based on survey data from 8 countries that we collected in 2024

Read the piece in full
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🧵 Key points and charts in thread

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Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social · 27d

And finally tomorrow at 15:30: a joint paper with @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social on audiences and their views on AI-generated misinformation 🤖 ⚠️

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Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social · 27d

The editorial team at @reutersinstitute.bsky.social has put together a website of our talks, featuring @waqasejaz.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social, @rasmuskleis.bsky.social, & a collab with @c3ds.bsky.social

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/here-ar...

Here are the papers at the Future of Journalism Conference 2025 presented by Reuters Institute researchers

The presented research focuses on AI's role in misinformation and elections, how it can be used to illustrate climate news, and the effects of exposure to news about climate protests

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Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social · Jul 7

How harmful is GenAI around elections? Will it trigger a misinformation apocalypse and upend elections?

I am happy to finally be able to share @sachaltay.bsky.social & my answers to these and other questions on which we have been working for a year and which is now out via @knightcolumbia.org

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · Jun 24

The success of these tools will largely depend on how keen audiences are to use them in the first place, and there are big regional and demographic differences. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/ai-p...

AI-personalized news takes new forms (but do readers want it?)

Many outlets have been personalizing news recommendations for years, but generative AI introduces the possibility to personalize news formats.

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Raymond Colle @raycolle.bsky.social · Jun 24

En español: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/es/digital-n...

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 24

You can find the complete analysis chapter here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

How audiences think about news personalisation in the AI era

This chapter explores audience attitudes towards news personalisation and public interest in different types of AI-driven news personalisation.

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 24

Younger people, who tend to be more comfortable with AI in general, also showed greater interest in the use of AI for personalising *formats* (e.g. adapting articles to different reading levels), as well as chatbots.

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 24

More broadly, respondents tended to express more enthusiasm across the board in countries where comfort with the use of AI in journalism is higher, such as India and Thailand, whereas we see much lower interest in countries with low AI comfort, such as the UK.

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 24

We found some differences by markets: e.g. translation ranks higher in linguistically unique European countries (e.g. Finland, Hungary); interest in adapting language for dif reading levels ranks higher in countries with lower literacy rates or reading proficiency (most popular option in India).

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 24

We found relatively low interest – below 30% – for any single option (which may be shaped by low familiarity with these kinds of tools). Interest was highest in options for making news use more efficient (summaries and translations) and relevant (customised homepages and recommendations or alerts).

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 24

Then we looked at audience interest in 8 different types of AI-driven news personalisation, including options for personalised *selection* (e.g. customised news homepages), but also options for personalised *formats* (e.g. summaries, translations, text-to-audio) and AI chatbots.

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 24

In open comments, those who said they were comfortable with personalised news selection explained they appreciated things like greater relevance, efficiency, and diversity; those who were uncomfortable questioned the quality of recommendations or worried about biases, missing out, surveillance, etc.

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 24

We found that close to half of respondents are comfortable with personalised news selection, but comfort was lower than personalisation for weather, music, or online TV (and higher than for social media/video feeds).

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 24

First, we looked at audience comfort with personalised *selection* across different kinds of websites and apps to understand how comfort with algorithmic recommendation in news compares to other domains.

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 24

Here are some key findings about how audiences think about news personalisation in the AI era from my chapter in the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Digital News Report 2025. 🧵 #DNR25

How audiences think about news personalisation in the AI era

This chapter explores audience attitudes towards news personalisation and public interest in different types of AI-driven news personalisation.

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 18

"When we ask audiences about their interest in options for adapting news to their needs with AI, we find relatively low interest across the board"

Read @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social chapter on how audiences think about personalisation and AI #DNR25
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

How audiences think about news personalisation in the AI era

This chapter explores audience attitudes towards news personalisation and public interest in different types of AI-driven news personalisation.

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

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Anne Schulz @annisch.bsky.social · Jun 17

News is too much and too negative according to growing shares of the audience.

In 2025, 40% say they sometimes or often avoid the news (up from 29% in 2017). Switzerland & Germany right on trend.

Why?
• 39%: “negatively affects my mood”
• 31%: “worn out by the amount”
• 30%: “too much conflict”

Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 17

Our Digital News Report 2025 is out!

📊48 markets
🌏Almost 100K respondents
📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers

📱Explore now buff.ly/xLP67Tg
🧵Findings in thread #DNR25

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 17

If you haven't seen them already, you can find details on all of our launch events here: bsky.app/profile/reut...

Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 12

🚨 Mark your calendars! 🚨

Our Digital News Report 2025 will be published on Tues 17 June.

This year’s report is based on a survey of almost 100,000 news consumers from 48 markets and will be presented at six global events with these 15 speakers

All you need to know in this thread
buff.ly/WTfoMls

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 17

Today's the big day! Here is a thread with some of the key findings from our Digital News Report 2025 #DNR25

Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 17

Our Digital News Report 2025 is out!

📊48 markets
🌏Almost 100K respondents
📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers

📱Explore now buff.ly/xLP67Tg
🧵Findings in thread #DNR25

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thanks again to @camilambpp.bsky.social, @benjamintoff.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social, and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social for being such wonderful colleagues and co-authors!

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 16

The article is called "Ritual Reinforcement: Habit, Emotion, and Identity as Attributes of Trust in News", and it was published open access in Journalism Studies. You can find it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ritual Reinforcement: Habit, Emotion, and Identity as Attributes of Trust in News

Theory and research about trust in news typically draws on normative understandings of news as a conduit for information transmission in the service of the media’s role as the Fourth Estate in demo...

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · Jun 16

So honored and grateful to have received The Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article of the Year Award from the #ICA25 @icajsd.bsky.social for a paper with my colleagues from the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Trust in News Project: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/reuters...

Reuters Institute researchers receive major awards for work broadening understanding of trust in news

Our colleagues and former staff received the awards at the International Communication Association's annual conference in Denver (United States).

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Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social · Jun 16

Very proud to receive the #ICA25 Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Journal Article of the Year Award for our paper on how habit, emotion and identity relate to trust in news, led by @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social. Thank you to @icajsd.bsky.social.

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/reuters...

Reuters Institute researchers receive major awards for work broadening understanding of trust in news

Our colleagues and former staff received the awards at the International Communication Association's annual conference in Denver (United States).

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

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