Details
Role
Work Package Advisor
Work Package Advisor
Connected to
Work Package Advisory Group
Work Package Advisory Group
Affiliation
Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Contact
/ Biography
Nicholas Diakopoulos is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies and Computer Science (by courtesy) at Northwestern University where he is Director of the Computational Journalism Lab (CJL) and Director of Graduate Studies for the Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) PhD program. Diakopoulos’ research is in computational journalism with active research projects on (1) algorithmic accountability and transparency, (2) automation and algorithms in news production, and (3) social media in news contexts. He is the author of the award-winning book Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Media from Harvard University Press. For some of his latest thinking and writing on automation and algorithms in journalism see his column in the Columbia Journalism Review.
/ Publications
Publications from 2020 and before are not direct results of the SFI MediaFutures, but are key results from our team members working on related topics in MediaFutures.
2024
Leveraging Professional Ethics for Responsible AI: Applying AI techniques to journalism. Journal Article
In: Communications of the ACM, 2024.
2021
Responsible media technology and AI: challenges and research directions Journal Article
In: AI and Ethics, 2021.