What is the 'public test' for AI use in news media? What is the difference between resigned, furtive, romantic, and modernist responses to AI in journalism? All that and more in my Nordic AI Journalism #NAMS2026 summit closing keynote, transcript + video here rasmuskleisnielsen.net/2026/06/22/w...

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Nearly half of @reutersinstitute.bsky.social DNR respondents say they prefer getting news from sources that don’t have a particular point of view. But can public demand for impartial news survive platforms and polarization? Read my chapter here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

“Trust in news and the information environment is going down”, Jim Egan says, but in many cases “trust in news organisations appears to be holding up as brands” #DNR26 podcast with him, @mitalilive.bsky.social and @richardfletcher.bsky.social here reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-pod...

Our book The Brussels Bubble: Inside the European Union in the Digital Age with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org is out now OPEN ACCESS! We take you on an ethnographic journey behind the scenes of multilateralism, from Brexit to COVID-19 to Russia's war on Ukraine 👉 Find it here: tinyurl.com/m237ry4b

Mass offerings "are harder to do because you can get anything that you want and a much deeper version of it online” Simon Robinson says at the London launch of #DNR26, featuring debate with @mitalilive.bsky.social, Emily Kent Smith, and Kamal Ahmed reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/we-need...

It's that time of year again: @reutersinstitute.bsky.social has put out its 2026 Digital News Report. Our team broke down some key findings — including how people continue to abandon news sites and apps in favor of social media and, increasingly, chatbots to get their news. buff.ly/ahksode

The 2026 Digital News Report is out, led by Jim Egan and the team at the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social. For the first time this year, social media and video networks are, on average across the markets covered, more popular than both TV and owned news websites and apps as sources of news. 1/5

🚨 Our Digital News Report 2026 is out! Authored by Jim Egan, Craig T. Robertson, Amy Ross Arguedas, Nic Newman, Rasmus Nielsen, Mitali Mukherjee and Richard Fletcher, it is based on 100K interviews in 48 markets Full report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news... 7 findings in thread

Truly honoured that my book ‘Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful’ won 2 awards @ the #ICA26 conference: the 2026 Outstanding Book Award of @icahdq.bsky.social & the 2026 Philosophy, Theory and Critique Best Book Award. Grateful to nominators & committee members for the recognition

Here @deeliu97.bsky.social at #ICA26 presenting work we did with Emillie de Keulenaar mapping civil society actors engaged in platform governance, preliminary coding of thousands of orgs identify distinct styles of engagement, an evolving population, and areas where CSAs have different priorities

I don't normally advertise each panel, but this is a special one. If you're around #ICA26 at noon today, please come join @acsj-ica.bsky.social panel on reflecting on activism/activist scholarship at ICA as a one-year-old division 🥳

Hi #ica26, me again! If you are in #PolComm and Europe, the ECREA PolComm Section is accepting applications for a new management team. Please consider applying and share with your colleagues. Meet me at ICA PolComm reception tonight if you wanna know more! ecreapoliticalcommunication.com/calls/

"I was born for the second time when the Iron Curtain was lifted in 1989" @thanitzsch.bsky.social says in personal and profoundly important Presidential Address on academic freedom at #ICA26, noting attacks in his native Germany as well as the US, Hong Kong, destruction in Gaza, and many other cases

Even before GenAI, peer review is struggling @zizip.bsky.social suggests, says * quantity of submissions⬆️, quality⬇️ * hard to find reviewers * many poor reviews * increasingly superficial scholarly conversations Stark discussions at #ICA26 panel on "Rethinking Academic Publishing" with top editors

#ICA26 time is awards time. Congratulations to all journalism studies winners. As I have a special place in my ❤️ for books an extra shout-out to "In the Shadow of the Global North" by J. Siguru Wahutu share.google/HKqSercbP0Ly... "The New Censorship" by Ayala Panievsky share.google/wkLE62YxaUi3...

Interview research from 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧finds concerns over AI-generated misinfo drive "indexical discounting" eroding realism heuristic, many want systemic remedies. @richardfletcher.bsky.social presents work led by @felixsimon.bsky.social @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social at #ICA26 Preprint osf.io/preprints/so...

Power (esp. state), institutional ("games" scholars navigate, including cross-disiplinary translation in university decision-making), and inner vulnerabilities (motivation as scholarship is treated as calling, career, commodity) - Fen Lin offer a way to think about academic vulnerabilities at #ICA26

“It is one thing to talk about inequality. It is something else to do something about it” @mkraidy.bsky.social says as #ICAA26 kicks off with opening plenary on 'Inequalities and Knowledge Production in Communication', also featuring Ingrid Bachmann, Tanja Bosch, Nicholas Bowman and Aliaa ElShabassy

ONLINE FIRST! This article by @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social, and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social compares inequalities in #news use in traditional offline and #online news #media environments over time among #internet users in six countries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The digital news media environment does not only reproduce old class structures. It reinforces them That is the key finding in new paper led by @antoniskalog.bsky.social analyzing social inequalities in offline and online news use across 6 countries over 10 years www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"What do you do in a world where the technology never centers you, the platforms never pay you, and there is no guarantee of visibility? Many newsrooms in the Global Majority have been living in this world for years" @jaemark.co writes, others could learn from them. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/as-a...

“Users don't want more control over their own experience. [They] want to have control over the experience of others [so] no matter how much content moderation I offer, and customize, and add different layers to, they're unlikely to be satisfied.” Sharp observation from @aaron.bsky.team #PlatGovNet

New report out on use of and perception of generative AI in Denmark, documenting rapid growth in use, more optimism than pessimism, but very differentiated expectations across different sector - with reservations about AI use by public authorities, media, politicians caisa.dk/forskning/ge...

“Over-moderation [by platforms designated under the DSA] may negatively affect civic discourse and create risks of negative effects on the fundamental right to freedom of expression and information.” That’s not a quote from J.D. Vance or Elon Musk. It is a quote from an EU report 1/5

Content moderation may be basically “unsolvable from a centralized standpoint, because there's no agreement on what is the problem for which [it] would be the solution. The way we deal with this at Reddit is by devolving the authority to take down content to the users”. Jessica Ashooh/PlatGovNet2025

Anyone interested in platform & AI governance check out the third annual PlatGov conference Mon/Tue - all online, free & truly global 🌍🌎🌏⌨️💽🤓 Here’s the program: platgov.net/assets/site/...

This Thanksgiving, professionally, I’m thankful for the opportunity to join the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at @harvard.edu as a Faculty Affiliate shorensteincenter.org/person/rasmu...

One week till we kick off PlatGovNet 2025, with civil society, industry leaders, practitioners, and scores of researchers coming together to discuss platform governance. Proud that @ucph.bsky.social can help host this online conference. Register here to join us: ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Yesterday, a "Digital Sovereignty Summit" in Berlin that Markus Beckedahl described as "largely a farce" and where Bruna Martins dos Santos described a "feeling [of] utter disappointment" in civil society. 1/4

Interested in platform governance, a defining issue of our time? Dec 1-2, PlatGovNet is hosting its 2025 online conference. 60+ presentations, conversations with civil society, Reddit, Bluesky. It is free to attend. Program platgov.net/assets/site/... Registration ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"These are all sensible, incremental proposals. [But] if public authorities really want to act they need to commit significant funding. It’s not clear the Democracy Shield represents a real qualitative jump in terms of money". Spoke with RTE about the EU's Democracy Shield www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...

“I have always felt it was important to take research out of academic journals and into the public sphere, to share with people what research has to offer, how it can help them make their own choices”. Wonderful lecture from Sun Sun Lim as she accepts her honorary professorship at U of Copenhagen.

What should be distributed to who, how, on what basis, why, and so what? These are six basic questions that must be answered if news is to receive public subsidies. In this piece for @reutersinstitute.bsky.social I outline a possible approach reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n... 1/2

"Europe is preparing to roll back parts of its landmark digital rules, long seen as global benchmarks for privacy and AI" @ramshajahangir.bsky.social writes, as EU Commission prepares to unveil the “Digital Omnibus” which could reshape GDPR, AI Act, and more. 1/4 www.techpolicy.press/eu-set-the-g...

"Conversations about “internet sovereignty” should not mistakenly assume that the exercise of sovereign state power over corporations will necessarily translate into greater agency for its people", @prateekwaghre.com writes www.techpolicy.press/indias-searc...

Apropos... 1) For all its challenges the BBC is the single most widely used source of news in the UK and is highly and broadly trusted across much of the political spectrum,. See e.g. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism research here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/bbc-und... 1/3

A striking feature of Mamdani's victory is that a democratic socialist whole-heartedly campaigned on arch-capitalist social media platforms, and clearly felt better able to convey what he stood for and wanted via them than by engaging with news media politiken.dk/kultur/medie... 1/3

As COP30 gets underway, a good time to read @waqasejaz.bsky.social & co on how mainstream news use is associated with stronger pro-climate behavioural intent across eight countries covered in their study (Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Pakistan, UK, US) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Maybe people sometimes enjoy synthetic things? “As the entertainment magazine recently pointed out, at least one AI or AI-assisted artist has charted in each of the past four weeks, a “streak suggesting this trend is quickly accelerating.” futurism.com/future-socie...

What if people appreciate having an abundance of content and communication, more than they feel overloaded by it? @annisch.bsky.social et al decided to have a look. Their results? "We found that appreciation for abundance was about twice as common as overload". Paper: journalqd.org/article/view...

’Mediestøtte for borgerne – demokratisering, fremtidssikring, og forenkling’ The report from the Commission on the Future of Media Subsidies that I have chaired in Denmark is now out kum.dk/fileadmin/_k... In near future I'll write a bit about this in English too - stay tuned!

What kinds of creators work on news and around news? Many defy categorisation, but, on the basis of open survey responses, Nic Newman & co have developed an audience-based typology of news-creators and news-adjacent creators Read the report here reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...

How direct, at risk of producing shocking, offensive, disturbing content, are different AI chatbots? Read review of major AI chatbots by @jordicalbad.bsky.social & co here, documenting range from very blunt to "softly moderated" bots like Alibaba's and DeepSeek futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...

What does digital sovereignty mean in Europe, in a country like Denmark with the GDP of Chongqing or Miami? What commitments do politicians think we should make, which trade-offs, what price are they asking us to pay? Wrote about these questions in @politiken.dk politiken.dk/del/JRqgI_AF...

How do people use AI tools for health information? @cward1e.bsky.social & co asked them - through 27 qualitative interviews, they document users' "sophisticated “mix-and-match” behaviors, drawing on multiple tools depending on context, urgency, and familiarity." www.jmir.org/2025/1/e79961

Actual (dis)honest-to-god fake news, from the looks of it commercial spammers partying like it is 2016, only on Tiktok.

"Could [journalism] shape the foreground [of AI content] as the sensemaking layer that anchors trust? The News Atom is a metadata blueprint designed to respond to this question." Read @sannuta-raghu.bsky.social here. She is an inspiration. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/introducing-...

"I will try to imagine a positive future for news in a world of ubiquitous AI. I will try to be relentlessly ‘user-centric’, prioritizing individual consumers in their lives" Read David Caswell's essay here (with sequels to come): reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/cusp-ab...