137 – AI, News, and the State

How are emerging AI technologies affecting and reshaping journalism and the journalist profession? This is the fundamental question for Media and Communication scholar Joanne Kuai’s doctoral thesis. Joanne’s research investigates global power shifts and institutional challenges from AI’s integration into journalism, focusing on China with comparisons to the US and EU. In our conversation, Joanne explains AI’s impact on media-state-tech relations, journalism labour, platformisation, and copyright. She also argues for the need of a more complex understanding of Chinese journalism. Joanne Kuai’s research offers insights for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers invested in contemporary journalism.

Joanne Kuai’s doctoral thesis can be downloaded from DiVA: AI, News, and the State: Reinstitutionalising Journalism in Global China’s Algorithmic Age