Intrusion of software robots into journalism: The public's and journalists' perceptions of news written by algorithms and human journalists
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Highlights:
• The respondents failed to discern a robot-written article from a human journalist's article.
• The respondents gave undifferentiated evaluation on quality without author notification.
• This study found interaction effect of author by true/reverse notification of author.
• Both the public and journalists gave higher scores on the robot-byline article regardless of real author.
摘要
•The respondents failed to discern a robot-written article from a human journalist's article.•The respondents gave undifferentiated evaluation on quality without author notification.•This study found interaction effect of author by true/reverse notification of author.•Both the public and journalists gave higher scores on the robot-byline article regardless of real author.
论文关键词:Robot journalism,Journalist,Algorithms,Technology adoption,Ingroup-outgroup distinction
论文评审过程:Received 11 July 2016, Revised 6 February 2017, Accepted 6 February 2017, Available online 7 February 2017, Version of Record 10 February 2017.
论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.02.022