A new @theconversation.com article by ADM+S researchers Silvia Montaña-Niño & @tjthomson.bsky.social provides strategies to identify AI generated content. 👉Familiarise yourself with #AIslop 👉Look deeply at details and inconsistencies 👉Look widely & verify the content source More: bit.ly/4dxmggI

Three ways to avoid being fooled by AI slop

Fact-checking can take hours or days while fakes can be created in seconds. So, what do we do?

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New pub in Journalism Studies ✨ "Expecting Humans, Encountering Machines: An Expectancy Violations Theory Approach to Generative AI in Journalism" Based on 60 itvs in AUS & Ger. Led by @ryanjthomas.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @ddc-sdu.bsky.social @aimediademlab.bsky.social

Expecting Humans, Encountering Machines: An Expectancy Violations Theory Approach to Generative AI in Journalism

Drawing on Expectancy Violations Theory (EVT), we conducted 60 semi-structured interviews to examine (1) how news audiences in Australia and Germany form expectations about journalists’ use of gene...

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New publication 🎯 Study on news audiences’ acceptance of GenAI in journalism: a case study across three domains. Led by @tjthomson.bsky.social, based on itvs in Germany 🇩🇪 & Australia 🇦🇺 Link🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... @aimediademlab.bsky.social @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

Our new article shows how the trend of data dismantling and artificially creating data scarcity about key public issues is affecting scrutiny and journalism investigations. Great working with Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos, @antmandan.bsky.social @tjthomson.bsky.social 360info.org/governments-...

Governments are hiding data, threatening democracy. Here’s how it affects you - 360

From being custodians of public knowledge, governments are turning to architects of manufactured ignorance. Amid disappearing evidence, citizens are struggling to hold power to account    Around the w...

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💬 We convened a roundtable earlier this year focused on exploring challenges and identifying responses across the news media industry and are excited to launch the results of our conversations in this report next week (at 3:30 pm on 4 December).

🎙️ Here are a couple quotes about audience engagement with #visualnews from a new study, co-authored with Rachael Anderson, and published today in Journalism Practice. 📝💻 We used a digital diary study to explore news visuals that community members thought were interesting, surprising, or remarkable.

ADM+S researcher @tjthomson.bsky.social explores the idea that AI systems don’t ‘see’ the world like humans do, which is shaping how AI generated images look and feel Read the full @theconversation.com article here: bit.ly/47eXJZy #AIgenerated #AIimages

👁️🤖 How do humans and computers "see"? That's the question driving my latest research, published in @viscomjournal.bsky.social. This study evaluates how computers process images and which specific #visualstyle elements across 3 dimensions computer vision regards as important and which it does not.

What a delight it was to work with @danielpfurtscheller.at, @klobinger.bsky.social, @nataliialaba.com, & @kathchr.bsky.social on this newly published study: Visual literacies in transition: multimodal co-production with generative AI. 🔗 You can read our open access study here: lnkd.in/gZwZr83g

Looking forward to this chat later today. 😃

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When: October 2, at 8:00 AM GMT Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @tjthomson.bsky.social

New article from The Conversation by ADM+S researcher @tjthomson.bsky.social with Samuel Cornell (UNSW). They explore the consequences for young people when consuming violent and disturbing viral content on social media. #viralvideos #socialmediaharms 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/466Ui7Q

The Routledge Companion to Visual Journalism (ed. N. Dahmen & @tjthomson.bsky.social) was available at the Future of Journalism Conference #FoJ2025 @cujournmedcul.bsky.social

🚀 New piece w/ @tjthomson.bsky.social T.J. Thomson: we explore how newsrooms can integrate AI and research into journalistic AI can be done in ways that are context-aware, value-driven, and human-centred. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2204... #Journalism #AI #ResponsibleAI #MediaInnovation #aanzca #jeraa #foj

Rethinking journalistic autonomy in the algorithmic era: toward context-aware, value-driven, and human-centred research into journalistic AI

Published in Communication Research and Practice (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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📖 The #RoutledgeCompanionToVisualJournalism is now available for pre-order. It features a whopping 41 chapters over 524 pages and is richly accompanied by all types of visuals from photographs and screenshots to AI-generated images and data visualisations. 🇦🇺🇳🇿🔗: www.booktopia.com.au/the-routledg...

🤔 What do news audiences want from local news? 📰 What do they think is poorly covered or missing? 📝 How involved are news audiences in the production and dissemination of local news? Our new report addresses these and other pressing questions for those living in regional parts of the country.

I reached a satisfying milestone today: 1 million reads of my 24 career-to-date articles published in @theconversation.com. I genuinely enjoy translating research for public benefit through these pieces and look forward to hopefully continuing to do so for many years into the future.

🤔 We see hundreds or thousands of images each day – but not all of them stand out to us. Why are some visuals more engaging than others? We explore this question in our latest article in @theconversation.com. 🔗 theconversation.com/novelty-nega... @admscentre.org.au

Novelty, negativity and no politicians: research reveals what makes some images more engaging than others

If you’re a sucker for a black and white filter, think again, as new research shows colour images are preferred by most viewers.

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👀 New research out on the types of bodies who are making visual news in regional settings, how bodies are being represented in visual news in these areas, and how the embodied nature of visual journalism affects the way that news images are made and presented. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Google’s new SynthID tool claims to detect AI-generated content—but only if it’s made with Google’s own models. Researchers @tjthomson.bsky.social @jeanburgess.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social explain how it works & whether watermarking can meet the challenge of #GenAI authenticity bit.ly/43Lj2jB

Google’s SynthID is the latest tool for catching AI-made content. What is AI ‘watermarking’ and does it work?

AI watermarks are supposed to help us tell if content is real or generated. But they dramatically vary in effectiveness.

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Join Brisbane Hacks/Hackers - ADM+S Affiliate Dr T.J. Thomson will discuss news audiences’ experiences with AI-generated/-edited content in journalism & the social-ethical-legal issues that they think exist @hackshackers.com @tjthomson.bsky.social @antmandan.bsky.social admscentre.org/HacksHackers

Here's me and @tjthomson.bsky.social's latest piece for @theconversation.com, discussing some of the memes put out by the major parties in the Australian election campaign. theconversation.com/election-mem...

Election meme hits and duds – we’ve graded the some of the best (and worst) of the campaign so far

Memes are the currency of the election campaign online. Here’s a report card on the Labor, Liberal and Greens efforts, from the good to the tone-deaf.

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I saw an ad over the weekend for Apple's #cleanup photo editing feature, now accessible through the default photos app on eligible devices, and wrote this in @aunz.theconversation.com about what this means for trust in #visual media. 🔗 theconversation.com/tools-like-a... @admscentre.org.au

Tools like Apple’s photo Clean Up are yet another nail in the coffin for being able to trust our eyes

Editing any photo, anywhere, is cheaper and easier than ever. What does that mean for having ‘visual proof’ of something?

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Enjoyed musing about the implications of #IlFoglio's fully #AI-generated newspaper experiment with SBS's Max Gugole and being quoted alongside @monicaattard.bsky.social in the resulting article. 🔗 www.sbs.com.au/language/ita... @admscentre.org.au

🤔 How would you fare with trying to sort photos from synthetic #AI images? Here's your opportunity to try it out. I had fun working with Michael Lucy and Matt Garrow on this interactive for @aunz.theconversation.com. theconversation.com/can-you-tell... @admscentre.org.au @ntsnetwork.bsky.social

Can you tell the difference between real and fake news photos? Take the quiz to find out

As the tide of AI ‘slop’ rises, it’s more important than ever to hone your reality-checking skills.

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Delighted to be included in this list with co-authors @ryanjthomas.bsky.social and @phoebesophist.bsky.social alongside some very fine colleagues from around the world.

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💡 Need some inspiration? Check out some of our most-downloaded articles in #DigitalJournalism over the past 12 months. 🔗 Check out the full top-10 list here: linktr.ee/digitaljourn...

Brilliant working with Aimee Hourigan and @zthetrain.bsky.social on this article about adults' everyday experiences with online #misinformation. 📋 Which topics surround misinformation beyond the usual suspects like health and politics? 🔗 Read on for more: 360info.org/half-truths-...

Half-truths and lies: an online day in Australia - 360

Australians are swamped by misinformation every day but they’re smart enough to know they need help to better navigate an untrustworthy online world. False online claims about business and the economy...

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🐦 Here's a bird's-eye view of our report, launched yesterday, on #generativeAI and #journalism. If you missed the launch, here are some links to help you get up to speed. 📑 Read the report here: bit.ly/GenAIandJournalism ⏯️ Watch the report launch recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ_O...

How do journalists and audiences feel about the use of AI in journalism? It's complicated 🤔, finds a new report by @tjthomson.bsky.social, Phoebe Matich, Ryan J. Thomas and @riedlinm.bsky.social via @theconversation.com

Generative AI is already being used in journalism – here’s how people feel about it

A new report on journalism in seven countries shows AI might have a place in the newsroom – but everyone should proceed with caution.

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What do news audiences expect of journalists' use of generative AI? New research from @tjthomson.bsky.social and @ryanjthomas.bsky.social on GAIN today outlining expectations and comfort levels with different uses of GenAI in news production: generative-ai-newsroom.com/how-do-news-...

Interested in #generativeAI and #journalism? If so, you’re warmly invited to the launch of a report on this topic next month. The report brings together six research and engagement activities conducted over a three-year period in seven countries and focuses on three domains.