Is Data Justice a News Frame in Media Reporting on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?

  • Nguyen, D. (Invited speaker)
  • Erik Hekman (Invited speaker)

Activity: Talk or presentation › Poster/paper presentation › Academic

Description

News media reporting can influence public perception of big data and artificial intelligence (AI). This includes awareness of data risks such as privacy invasion, data bias, exclusion, and discrimination, i.e. challenges connected to “data justice”. The study charts the news framing of big data and AI in four (tech-) news outlets (The New York Times, The Guardian, Gizmodo, and Wired) via a combination of manual and automated content analyses (13,465 articles in total). The goal is to 1) show how news media cover big data and AI in general and 2) whether “data justice” is a noticeable frame. The results imply that media attention, especially on AI, increased in recent years and that news reporting became visibly more critical over time. While big data and AI are mostly framed in respect to economic benefits, news media often connect them to the individual and collective risks that they can entail. This connects to news media’s role in building-up data literacy among a broader public.
PeriodMay 2021
Event titleData Justice 2021: Civic Participation in the Datafied Society
Event typeConference
LocationCardiffShow on map

Keywords

  • Big Data
  • AI
  • Data Justice
  • Computational Methods
  • Framing