Tomás Dodds

CfP Journalism Practice: Journalism, Platforms, and Public Interest Technologies Special Issue Editor(s) Tomas Dodds, University of Wisconsin-Madison doddsrojas@wisc.edu Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida jmcnealy@jou.ufl.edu Mona Sloane, University of Virginia mona.sloane@vir...

Here's a timely CFP from @tomasdodds.bsky.social and the Public Tech Media Lab at UW-Madison for a special issue of @JournalismPractice. The deadline for extended abstracts is April 1, 2026.

AI breaks the hamster wheel of journalism "The breaking of the hamster wheel's fundamental premise — that humans must run it — creates space for reimagining what journalism <em>could be</em> if not organized around acceleration as its governi...

What's ahead for journalism in 2026? Based on my ongoing research (and forthcoming book!) on AI and journalism with Rodrigo Zamith and @tomasdodds.bsky.social, I explain why AI is a critical fork-in-the-road moment for journalism's future:

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/ai-b...

Excited to share our latest article in Journalism Practice: “Journalists ‘Attagged’: The @-tag as a Bonding Tool for ‘Supercharged Critical Publics’”

Led by @Marloes Geboers, and /w @tomasdodds.bsky.social, Eirliani A Rahman and myself — published open access:
doi.org/10.1080/1751...

The special issue is edited together with @natalihelberger.bsky.social, @teachguz.bsky.social and @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social.

They also identify five key functions of hype: how it directs attention and resources, signals innovation, drives collaboration and policy, and prompts reflection within the profession itself.

A new commentary for our SI on AI hype in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social is out! ✨

Seth Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Jon B. Bunquin argue that hype warrants closer attention, not just as a media trend, but as a window into deeper social and institutional dynamics.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🗞️ My conversation with Luciano Jiménez on the impact of AI on fake news and elections was published today in La Seguna! Read the full interview in Spanish below ⤵️

Journalism in the age of AI A new UW-Madison lab aims to help newsrooms develop in-house artificial intelligence tools that reflect their own values and needs.

Asst prof @tomasdodds.bsky.social spoke to @isthmusmadison.bsky.social about his new Public Tech Media Lab, which aims to teach journalists how to use open source technologies and make newsrooms less dependent on big tech companies that have their own private interests. isthmus.com/opinion/from...

New Faculty Q&A with Assistant Professor Tomás Dodds Journalist and researcher Dr. Tomás Dodds joins the School of Journalism and Mass Communication as an assistant professor.

We're excited to welcome new @uwsjmc.bsky.social faculty @tomasdodds.bsky.social to the Center as an affiliate. Dodds examines how new technologies shape newsroom practices, journalistic authority and the ways reporters understand their profession. Welcome,Tomás!

journalism.wisc.edu/news/new-fac...

First time celebrating Labour Day in Madison 🙂

New Faculty Q&A with Assistant Professor Tomás Dodds Journalist and researcher Dr. Tomás Dodds joins the School of Journalism and Mass Communication as an assistant professor.

I did a small Q&A with my new colleagues at the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication about what students can expect to learn in my classes, why I chose to come to Madison, and what I was doing for four weeks in Tenerife! Check it out here ⤵️

journalism.wisc.edu/news/new-fac...

SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS! The deadline for this CfP is fast coming up! Submit your abstract to “Institutionalizing Open-Source Investigations in #Journalism” by Sep 1, guest edited by @sethclewis.bsky.social, @tomasdodds.bsky.social, Alexa Koenig, Rodrigo Zamith, & @davidcheruiyot.bsky.social.

Eleven academics met today to discuss "The AI turn in journalism: Disruption, adaptation, and democratic futures" recent essay during our first News, Technology, and Society Network reading group. Thanks to @dbossio.bsky.social for facilitating and to all from RMIT and beyond who attended.

This was fun! Thanks to everyone who joined us.

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The introduction to our SI on bridging the research-practice gap in journalism has now been published!

You can read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It was a pleasure to co-edit this special issue with @annaschjoett.bsky.social, @nadjaschaetz.bsky.social, and @claudiamellado.bsky.social

A promo poster for Bissie Anderson’s public lecture ‘Strengthening journalism from the periphery’ (27 May 2025, 3-4pm, Digital Lab, Leiden University)

Excited about my first public lecture and the trip to Leiden next week as part of our research exchange with @agdorst.bsky.social @tomasdodds.bsky.social @karakanta.bsky.social

We've got a no, too! We are also missing the revisions. 😒

SPECIAL ISSUE CfP! Submit abstracts to our Special Issue on "Institutionalizing Open-Source Investigations in Journalism", edited by @sethclewis.bsky.social, @tomasdodds.bsky.social, Alexa Koenig, @rodzam.bsky.social & @davidcheruiyot.bsky.social
🗓️Sep 1, 2025
➡️Info: drive.google.com/file/d/1R9T8...

The Future of Journalism (Studies) in the Age of AI This panel examines the range of approaches currently used in journalism studies to analyze AI and news. It aims to identify which approaches are proving most productive, which may be less useful, and...

How is #AI reshaping journalism research, education, and practice? Join me, Seth Lewis, @natalihelberger.bsky.social, and @nickmattis.bsky.social to chat about the challenges, the hype, and the future of the field.

📆 June 2nd, 16:00 (CET).
📍 SPUI25 (or stream online).

➡️ spui25.nl/programma/th...

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🚨 New publication out now in Journalism!

The AI turn in journalism forces us to rethink journalism’s identity and its relationship with different stakeholders.

🔗 Read the full piece here (open access 🔓):
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How does the power of Big Tech affect our democracies, and can it be contained? Don't miss this SPUI25 event this Thursday with theresajseipp.bsky.social, @pjleerssen.bsky.social and @tomasdodds.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3EV8yFS

The Rising Power of Big Tech (rescheduled) In a moment of rapid change for global politics, Big Tech platforms and their owners are shaping up to be international power brokers. Trump’s White house cozies up to Silicon Valley oligarchs as Elon...

📣 This week, I'll be moderating a conversation with @theresajseipp.bsky.social and @pjleerssen.bsky.social on the rising power of big tech and its growing influence on global politics, media, and democracy.

📆 Join us on 8 May at 17:00 at SPUI25.

➡️ Registered here: spui25.nl/programma/re...

Ieder z'n specialisme op de redactie? Bij AI-gebruik is dat een valkuil Redacties experimenteren volop met AI, maar een verantwoorde toepassing van kunstmatige intelligentie vergt behalve technische kennis ook gevoel voor journalistieke dilemma’s. En die twee zaken bevind...

I chatted with Olaf Geurts from @svdj.bsky.social about our research on knowledge silos in Dutch newsrooms. We discussed how these silos hinder the adoption of #AI in journalism and why it’s urgent to break them down.

➡ You can read the interview here (in Dutch): www.svdj.nl/nieuws/ieder...

The Rising Power of Big Tech (rescheduled) In a moment of rapid change for global politics, Big Tech platforms and their owners are shaping up to be international power brokers. Trump’s White house cozies up to Silicon Valley oligarchs as Elon...

📣 Panel Discussion: The Rising Power of Big Tech (New Date!) Thursday, 8 May 2025 | 17:00 | SPUI25. Join @pjleerssen.bsky.social, @tomasdodds.bsky.social and me as we discuss Big Tech’s growing influence on global politics, media and democracy. Register here: spui25.nl/programma/re...

Academia de JournalismAI — JournalismAI Un programa de formación para que redacciones de Latinoamérica puedan aprovechar el poder de la inteligencia artificial

📢 Muy contento de contarles que voy a ser uno de los instructores para la Academia de #JournalismAI para América Latina!

📆 Las postulaciones están abiertas para todo #LATAM hasta el 27 de abril!

➡️ Más información y postulaciones en: www.journalismai.info/programmes/a...

📆 Important dates:
15 June 2025: Submission deadline for abstracts (to ai.ijpp@protonmail.com)
1 July 2025: Notification of acceptance/decisions
1 November 2025: Submission deadline for full papers

ℹ️ Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

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🚨 CfP: “Global Myth and Magic around AI: Enchanted Determinism and Folk Theories in Public Discourses on AI.”

We are editing a special issue on how enchanted determinism limits discussions by reducing the public’s ability to challenge AI technologies.

➡️ Call: journals.sagepub.com/page/hij/glo...

Generative AI and Journalism: Hype, The Always Already New, and Directions for Scholarly Imagination This essay pushes against hype about generative AI in both journalism and journalism scholarship. Emergent questions around the black box nature of AI, concerns about information disorder, and prob...

🚨 The commentary that Nik Usher wrote for our special issue on AI hype in media is out in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social!

Nik argues that “to give into the magic of generative AI is to give technologists too much power.”

➡️ Read the commentary: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Buzz Across Borders: Analyzing the Global and Local Dynamics Shaping the ChatGPT Media Hype in China ChatGPT ignited a global AI media hype. Surprisingly, China ranks as the leading country in online searches for “ChatGPT,” despite the platform’s limited accessibility there. In this study, we expl...

➡️ Read the full paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 Paper number 4️⃣ from our @digitaljournalism.bsky.social Special Issue on AI Hype in Journalism is out!

Bin Chen, Anfan Chen, and Shuning Lu examine how Chinese coverage of #ChatGPT was significantly shaped by global English-language media and discussions on global and domestic social media.