ENTER THE ROBOT JOURNALIST Users' perceptions of automated content
ENTER THE ROBOT JOURNALIST Users' perceptions of automated content
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DOI：
10.1080/17512786.2014.883116
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发表时间：
2014-01-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Clerwall, Christer
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作者：
Clerwall, Christer
新技术的出现总是引发人们对新闻业的变化的质疑，包括新闻内容、新闻生产方式和新闻消费。数字新闻领域的一个相当新的发展是软件生成的内容，即自动制作的内容。本文旨在调查读者如何看待软件生成的内容，由记者写的类似内容。这项研究采用了一种实验方法，受访者受到不同的新闻文章，无论是由记者或软件生成。然后，受访者被要求回答有关他们如何看待文章的整体质量，可信度，客观性等问题。本文介绍了从最初的小规模研究结果表明，虽然软件生成的内容被认为是描述性的和无聊的，它也被认为是客观的，但不一定从记者写的内容辨别。本文讨论了研究结果及其对新闻实践的启示。
The advent of new technologies has always spurred questions about changes in journalism-its content, its means of production, and its consumption. A quite recent development in the realm of digital journalism is software-generated content, i.e. automatically produced content. This paper seeks to investigate how readers perceive software-generated content in relation to similar content written by a journalist. The study utilizes an experimental methodology where respondents were subjected to different news articles that were written either by a journalist or were softwaregenerated. The respondents were then asked to answer questions about how they perceived the article-its overall quality, credibility, objectivity, etc. The paper presents the results from an initial small-scale study with findings suggesting that while the software-generated content is perceived as descriptive and boring, it is also considered to be objective although not necessarily discernible from content written by journalists. The paper discusses the results of the study and its implication for journalism practice.