Full Description
AI is growing rapidly around the world and has already changed many aspects of our societies. Journalism and mass communication educators are faced with the task of learning about the technology, while immediately applying it to their teaching.
What are the ramifications of AI's expansion for mass communication and journalism education? This book centers the voices of diverse educators, who share their concerns and hopes, as well as the insights that they have gained from their use of this technology, and advises educators how to enhance the implementation of AI in their own teaching and approach the technology more critically.
A timely contribution to a dynamically evolving area, this book is essential reading for teachers, academic developers, institutional leaders, industry members, and other stakeholders who are concerned about the formation of the journalists, editors, advertising specialists, public relations professionals and other communication practitioners of the future.
Contents
Acknowledgments - Note About the Cover - Note About the Higher Education- Related Terminology Used in the Book - Preface - Introduction: The Case for Charting Artificial Intelligence Developments in Journalism and Mass Communication Education - Background: The Factors that Continue to Shape the Growth of Artificial Intelligence - Understanding the Nature of Artificial Intelligence - The Importance of Exploring Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Journalism and Mass Communication - The Current Elements in Functionally Oriented Teaching About, and With, Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and Mass Communication Education - The Current Elements in Critically Oriented Teaching About, and With, Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and Mass Communication Education - The Current Elements in Ethics- Focused Teaching About, and With, Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and Mass Communication Education - The Requirements for the Current and Future Professional Development of Journalism and Mass Communication Educators to Teach About, and With, Artificial Intelligence - Future Artificial Intelligence Developments in Higher Education and Their Implications for Journalism and Mass Communication Education - The Next Steps That Journalism and Mass Communication Educators Should be Taking Now and in the Future in Relation to Artificial Intelligence - Conclusion: Key Final Considerations Relating to Artificial Intelligence - Postface: Educators and the Challenge of Controlling AI-Based Change - Further Reading Suggestions - Appendix - Index.
