A selection of current and former research, and teaching projects.
- Small Newsrooms, Big Changes: Exploring the Effects of Generative AIArtificial intelligence (AI) technologies have long been used in the creation and distribution of journalism, but their application has largely been limited to well-resourced, large news organizations. With the emergence and popularization of generative AI systems,…
- Newsomatic: A Prototype to Explore Physicality and News PersonalizationJournalism audiences are no longer solely reliant on traditional forms of media distribution such as print, radio and television to learn about relevant news. Internet-based platforms and digital technologies have reshaped how individuals can receive important…
- BulletinBot: Personalized Automated Audio News Bulletins and How text to speech could disrupt the news industryThis project examined how emerging text-to-speech technologies could be combined with news personalization techniques to deliver automated audio based news bulletins. With the creation of BulletinBot, a simple automated news bulletin system, this research explored how…
- NEWSFLOWS: Research InternshipAs part of my coursework in the PhD in Media and Design program, I undertook an internship working with Dr. Damian Trilling at the University of Amsterdam, contributing to the NEWSFLOWS project. Given the context of…
- News Personalization: Do Journalism Audiences Prefer Algorithms Over Editors?My final project-paper as part of my Master’s in Communication and Culture explores what motivates news organizations to employ algorithmically driven news personalization techniques and develops a methodology to determine whether journalism audiences have a preference…
- An Automated Approach to Measuring Online DeliberationThis project proposes a framework for an automated method to measure online deliberation by analyzing commentary surrounding a complex social issue. By employing a combination of analytic calculations, alongside tools such as Google Perspective and LIWC,…