Imaginarios de periodistas costarricenses sobre la inteligencia artificial y otras tecnologías digitales

María Fernanda Salas; Ignacio Siles; Carolina Carazo

doi:10.56418/txt.17.1.2023.4

Authors

María Fernanda Salas Universidad de Costa Rica https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4834-8415
Ignacio Siles Universidad de Costa Rica https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9725-8694
Carolina Carazo Universidad de Costa Rica

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56418/txt.17.1.2023.4

Keywords:

imaginarios, inteligencia artificial, periodismo, redes sociales, rutinas organizacionales, tecnologías digitales

Abstract

This article analyzes the imaginaries that Costa Rican journalists have of various digital technologies, including artificial intelligence. Based on 20 interviews with journalists, this study demonstrates the existence of two imaginaries around technologies such as artificial intelligence, social media and algorithms: an imaginary that interprets the value of these technologies based on a "romantic" vision of journalism (in the sense of idealized); another imaginary that qualifies this ideal and prioritizes concerns of a more generational nature. By examining these two imaginaries and how they materialize in journalistic practice, this article allows us to understand that the appropriation of artificial intelligence is not uniform or universal. The meaning of technologies such as AI varies based on logic that links the technological with variables of another nature, such as professional and personal trajectories, as well as organizational practices, cultures and routines.

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Author Biography

María Fernanda Salas, Universidad de Costa Rica

María Fernanda Salas Jiménez es estudiante de Ciencias de la Comunicación Colectiva con énfasis en Periodismo de la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR). Es asistente de investigación en Centro de Investigación en Comunicación (CICOM) de la UCR y en la Escuela de Periodismo de Michigan State University.

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