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Gregory P. Perreault
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Digital journalism professor 🏝️AE at Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly/ Author, “Digital Journalism and the Facilitation of Hate” (2023) 🇺🇸🇨🇦 actively 🏃‍♂️🧑‍💻#firstgen.

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 6
🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 The disadvantages of social media have become abundantly obvious to just about everyone. In this study, we were intrigued to see how journalists considered the audience in a platform space riddled with power imbalances. #commsky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Aspirational Metajournalism: What Nieman Journalism Lab Predictions Reveal About Platform and Audience Imaginaries: Digital Journalism: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
Browse all journals
www.tandfonline.com

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 3d
"Finding hope in Hegel"

Wrote a short post for @acadianjprof.bsky.social's end of year newsletter on "what's bringing you hope".

Strongly inspired by Alain de Botton and Hans Rosling.
Finding Hope in Hegel
By Tobias Dienlin, University of Zürich
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Reposted by Gregory Perreault, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 6d
Time for our annual viewing of the academia-themed Just in Time for Christmas, in which she gets cold called by the “Dean of Yale,” who wants to publish her dissertation because it will be a bestseller and offers a flyout for a job she didn’t apply for, and mystical William Shatner shakes things up.

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · 8d
What you leave with, paradoxically, is the want to run a marathon after you do the first.

You’ll do great! Good luck

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Dr. Daniela Dimitrova @profdimitrova.bsky.social · 10d
It’s great to see this special issue on AI and disinformation out! Congratulations to all authors and of course guest editors!! 📖 ✍️ 🎉
jmcquarterly.bsky.social JMCQ @jmcquarterly.bsky.social · 17d
Christian von Sikorski and Michael Hameleers have curated a timely and excellent special issue on 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 👏
Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/JMQ/curr....
@profdimitrova.bsky.social @cvsikorski.bsky.social #commsky
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly - Volume 102, Number 4
Table of contents for Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 102, 4
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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Nov 15
Thank you @profdimitrova.bsky.social!

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Nov 11
⚡BIG NEWS⚡Excited to be the new Associate Editor for @jmcquarterly.bsky.social. Big shoes to fill, following the fantastic work of @connolly-ahern.bsky.social! Grateful to continue to serve this flagship journal 🙌
jmcquarterly.bsky.social JMCQ @jmcquarterly.bsky.social · Nov 11
We thank @acadianjprof.bsky.social for his excellent work as Book Reviews Editor and are delighted to welcome him to his new role as Associate Editor. 🎉
His experience and commitment will continue to strengthen the journal!
@profdimitrova.bsky.social #commsky

Reposted by Gregory Perreault, Daniela V. Dimitrova

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JMCQ @jmcquarterly.bsky.social · Nov 11
We thank @acadianjprof.bsky.social for his excellent work as Book Reviews Editor and are delighted to welcome him to his new role as Associate Editor. 🎉
His experience and commitment will continue to strengthen the journal!
@profdimitrova.bsky.social #commsky

Reposted by Daniela V. Dimitrova

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Nov 7
So proud to be part of this hard-working team! Thanks for leading us @profdimitrova.bsky.social!
jmcquarterly.bsky.social JMCQ @jmcquarterly.bsky.social · Nov 7
Our JMCQ editorial team met on November 5.

Thank you to all for the thoughtful discussion and steady teamwork. We appreciate your commitment to rigorous scholarship!

Big thank you also to our authors and reviewers who make JMCQ possible! #commsky @profdimitrova.bsky.social

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JMCQ @jmcquarterly.bsky.social · Nov 7
Our JMCQ editorial team met on November 5.

Thank you to all for the thoughtful discussion and steady teamwork. We appreciate your commitment to rigorous scholarship!

Big thank you also to our authors and reviewers who make JMCQ possible! #commsky @profdimitrova.bsky.social

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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · Oct 24
Grad students in political science and other social sciences! Consider applying to the great 2-week summer program in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse. Info is here:

www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
Institute for Qualitative & Multi-Method Research
www.maxwell.syr.edu

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · Oct 17
My new book is out, edited with the great James West and Carole O’Reilly: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... — if your institution doesn’t have access, please email me for a PDF! #mediahistory
Media Building
This book interrogates the enduring and evolving relationship between journalism, mass communications, and the built environment.
link.springer.com

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 12
Even the pope condemns clickbait.

The Guardian, a publication for the mature and thoughtful, uses a clickbait to advertise the story ✨

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 9
What a privilege to get to chat with the great team at University of Florida 🐊🐊Sharp students and insightful faculty—thanks for the opportunity to guest speak @linditacamaj.bsky.social and @cratebeats.bsky.social!

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 8
When it rains, it pours! A busy publication week. For this study, we have data offered openly via OSF for those interested! osf.io/bwkez/
ChatBots as Artificial Intermediaries
Project aims to understand how journalists conceive of the threat of artificial intelligence, as well as perceive their own intermediary role Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 8
Largely, the countries responded AI in lockstep with a key difference: there was far more fear of being replaced by AI among journalists in the US and Canada.

Happy to see this publish in Journalism Studies! First 50 copies are free access!

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PINGA...
ChatBots as Artificial Intermediaries? Adaptation to Artificial Intelligence in Newsrooms
Journalists have long claimed authority regarding the distribution of valid knowledge and hence, have discursively placed themselves in an intermediary role between audiences and the information th...
www.tandfonline.com

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 8
(2) Journalists frequently summoned the "human in the loop" principle for the AI-developed knowledge. The AI knowledge did emerge from nowhere--it came from human-programming, trained on human texts. This is to say that the human touch is very much a part of any professional interventions with AI.

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 8
(1) If the lines in using AI for professional work seem blurry, they certainly are to journalists too. Across national contexts, these trade press texts did not distinguish between using AI for knowledge creation and using AI to *enhance* the work they were already doing

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 8
We analyzed institutional discourse from four countries--🇨🇦🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧--177 articles in all following the release of ChatGPT 3.5. We find two things:

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 8
🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨Journalists have long claimed the domain of valid knowledge. In this article, Jakob Ohme and I explored, does journalism believe that this distribution, as many other things have been, be replicated by Chatbots? #commsky
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PINGA...
ChatBots as Artificial Intermediaries? Adaptation to Artificial Intelligence in Newsrooms
Journalists have long claimed authority regarding the distribution of valid knowledge and hence, have discursively placed themselves in an intermediary role between audiences and the information th...
www.tandfonline.com

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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · Oct 8
ONLINE FIRST! @acadianjprof.bsky.social & @jnelz.bsky.social review 11 years of Nieman Lab predictions on the future of media. Drawing on a metajournalistic analysis, they show journalists’ trust in social media has declined, but confidence in audiences endures.
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 6
Glad to see this publish in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social's special issue on "Unfolding disentanglements from platform power!" First 50 copies are free access!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Aspirational Metajournalism: What Nieman Journalism Lab Predictions Reveal About Platform and Audience Imaginaries: Digital Journalism: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
Browse all journals
www.tandfonline.com

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 6
But what has not changed or faltered in the slightest? Journalists' perceptions of the audience. Journalists have no problem differentiating the platform from the public; and the journalistic communities faith in the audience remains unwavering.

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 6
This has all but diminished, with the journalistic community instead thinking through novel means to reach their audiences without them.

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 6
We analyzed 11 years of them. Through this, we argue that while journalistic predictors initially conceptualized social media through a utopian lens (e.g. social media=new audiences/better access to existing audiences)

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 6
This study with @jnelz.bsky.social looks at a unique form of data: journalists predictions from Nieman Journalism Lab. The yearly predictions, published from the US based institution, aren't *entirely* predictions. But they are certainly essays about the future that tell us alot about the present.

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 3
Moving story from the US today. Left me with a bit of dust in my eye. Class, character and kindness from Dave Butler.

Reposted by Daniela V. Dimitrova

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 2
A must-read by @jscvienna.bsky.social’s @birteleonhardt.bsky.social!

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 1
looks like a pretty big place though. There might be a 1000 just on the small size, between buildings maybe

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Gregory P. Perreault @acadianjprof.bsky.social · Oct 1
Two days of proofs. People of Bluesky, hear me out: a tour of academic publisher locations. In my head, "Thousand Oaks, CA" sounds super scenic. According to Google, still scenic!