Automated Journalism: A Meta-Analysis of Readers’ Perceptions of Human-Written in Comparison to Automated News
This meta-analysis summarizes evidence on how readers perceive the credibility, quality, and readability of automated news in comparison to human-written news. Overall, the results, which are based on experimental and descriptive evidence from 12 studies with a total of 4,473 participants, showed no...
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| description | This meta-analysis summarizes evidence on how readers perceive the credibility, quality, and readability of automated news in comparison to human-written news. Overall, the results, which are based on experimental and descriptive evidence from 12 studies with a total of 4,473 participants, showed no difference in readers’ perceptions of credibility, a small advantage for human-written news in terms of quality, and a huge advantage for human-written news with respect to readability. Experimental comparisons further suggest that participants provided higher ratings for credibility, quality, and readability simply when they were told that they were reading a human-written article. These findings may lead news organizations to refrain from disclosing that a story was automatically generated, and thus underscore ethical challenges that arise from automated journalism. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a82143b84e0f43c3896ced1b300fd6b92022-12-22T02:09:01ZengCogitatioMedia and Communication2183-24392020-07-0183505910.17645/mac.v8i3.30191532Automated Journalism: A Meta-Analysis of Readers’ Perceptions of Human-Written in Comparison to Automated NewsAndreas Graefe0Nina Bohlken1Business Faculty, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, GermanyBusiness Faculty, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, GermanyThis meta-analysis summarizes evidence on how readers perceive the credibility, quality, and readability of automated news in comparison to human-written news. Overall, the results, which are based on experimental and descriptive evidence from 12 studies with a total of 4,473 participants, showed no difference in readers’ perceptions of credibility, a small advantage for human-written news in terms of quality, and a huge advantage for human-written news with respect to readability. Experimental comparisons further suggest that participants provided higher ratings for credibility, quality, and readability simply when they were told that they were reading a human-written article. These findings may lead news organizations to refrain from disclosing that a story was automatically generated, and thus underscore ethical challenges that arise from automated journalism.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3019automated newscomputational journalismcredibilityjournalismmeta-analysisperceptionqualityreviewrobot journalism |
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| title | Automated Journalism: A Meta-Analysis of Readers’ Perceptions of Human-Written in Comparison to Automated News |
| title_full | Automated Journalism: A Meta-Analysis of Readers’ Perceptions of Human-Written in Comparison to Automated News |
| title_fullStr | Automated Journalism: A Meta-Analysis of Readers’ Perceptions of Human-Written in Comparison to Automated News |
| title_full_unstemmed | Automated Journalism: A Meta-Analysis of Readers’ Perceptions of Human-Written in Comparison to Automated News |
| title_short | Automated Journalism: A Meta-Analysis of Readers’ Perceptions of Human-Written in Comparison to Automated News |
| title_sort | automated journalism a meta analysis of readers perceptions of human written in comparison to automated news |
| topic | automated news computational journalism credibility journalism meta-analysis perception quality review robot journalism |
| url | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3019 |
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