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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already integrated into news production strategies in some media outlets. Recently, generative AIs like ChatGPT and others have demonstrated their ability to enhance productivity in content production tasks, raising the question of how journalism faculties can address this new technology. This paper presents an academic study on the application of AI in higher communication studies. The study involved 4 in-depth interviews and 28 semi-structured interviews with university lecturers and researchers. The findings confirm varying degrees of convergence and divergence on different aspects of the technology, including the integration of AI in communication faculties, student training in AI usage, the introduction of AI and journalism as a subject area, and the potential uses of AI in news production and consumption. Additionally, this paper proposes a comprehensive training program on AI and journalism, focusing on its foundations, technical competencies, and ethical considerations.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already integrated into news production strategies in some media outlets. Recently, generative AIs such as ChatGPT and others have demonstrated their ability to enhance productivity in content production tasks, raising the question of how journalism faculties can address this new technology. This paper presents an academic study on the application of AI in higher communication studies. The study involved 4 in-depth interviews and 28 semi-structured interviews with university lecturers and researchers. The findings confirm varying degrees of convergence and divergence on different aspects of the technology, including the integration of AI in communication faculties, student training in AI usage, the introduction of AI and journalism as a subject area, and the potential uses of AI in news production and consumption. Additionally, this paper proposes a comprehensive training program on AI and journalism, focusing on its foundations, technical competencies and ethical considerations.

We investigated Twitter communications by the media and institutions regarding two emergency situations which had a major impact in Europe: the accident of Germanwings Flight 9525 in the French Alps on 24 March, 2015, and Ebola infection of Teresa Romero, a nursing assistant at the Hospital Carlos III in Madrid, reported on 6 October, 2014. Our methodology was based on a new tool called top discussion indicator (TDI). Our results indicate that media and institutions do not exploit all the possibilities offered by Twitter. We propose a decalogue of recommendations aimed at improving use of Twitter and ensuring greater communicative efficacy.

Based on an analysis of several sampled political discussions on Twitter, a new methodology is proposed that allows researchers to obtain a significant, replicable, and manageable data sample from a universe of Twitter metadata. The proposal is a new model called Top discussion indicator (TDI). The aim of TDI is to assist researchers in obtaining a representative set of text from Twitter that includes the minimum amount of information needed to generalize the results.

The World Wide Web has been from its beginning a tool with capacity to change, overall in crisis situations, the interest of the public by the information. The importance of this one in case of emergency is fundamental for the citizens, and the form as it arrives can be transcendental to restrain the anxiety and the confusion that, among other things, the constant dripping of uncertain data produces on victims. The traditional roll of the media becomes radically dragged by the urgencies and the instantaneous thing. In fact, direct and the immediacy, imposes the rate of present mass media. That is to say, and so that he serves as example, as wrote Bertrand Pecquerie, president of Average World, “when the CNN informs into simultaneous form to the farmer of Arkansas and president George Bush, is ending itself two essential attributes of the power: the control of the time and its capacity of anticipation”. The easy access to the Web has allowed that is the own citizens those who in extreme situations decide to inquire by their account of an active form. In this sense, the emergent dominion of the World Wide Web in the informative crisis shows an authentic shift of paradigm in the social communication, as it is tried to demonstrate in this article. In individual and of recent way, the attack against the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in September of 2001 in the United States; the catastrophe of the Prestige in Galicia, November of 2002 and the attacks of the 11 of March of 2004 in Madrid, has demonstrated the enormous influence of the Network in the mediáticas covers of the crises. From the analysis of the data available of these recent crises we try to show the increasing interest of the public by the WWW, coverall in relation to those means that also have analogical formats. Thus, we can assure that more and more the conventional mass media Web sites are visited by thousands of users to inquire into more active way when a crisis explodes.

The present article describes a methodology that combines frame analysis and narrative structure analysis in research into the journalistic handling of information. To determine the validity of this combined methodology, we examined media coverage of the Catalan independence rally of 11 September 2013 by six Spanish newspapers. The results indicate that this combined methodology brought to light findings that would not have been obtained by each technique used in isolation. This approach —to our knowledge, novel— contributed to a deeper and multidisciplinary analysis that shed light on patterns reflecting relationship between frames and narrative structures. Este artículo constituye una propuesta metodológica que combina el análisis de frames y el análisis de estructuras narrativas en una misma investigación sobre tratamiento informativo. Para determinar la validez e interés de dicha combinación se ha realizado un test sobre la cobertura mediática que seis periódicos españoles hicieron de la manifestación celebrada el 11 de septiembre del año 2013 en Catalunya para reclamar la independencia. Los resultados obtenidos indican que la combinación de técnicas utilizada permite extraer unas conclusiones que no se podrían conseguir por separado, ya que el cruce de ambas técnicas aporta información nueva. Así, contribuye a conseguir un análisis más profundo y pluridisciplinar y constata un patrón de relación entre frames y estructuras narrativas.