Silvia Montaña-Niño's research while affiliated with University of Melbourne and other places

Publications (7)

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The social actors, technologies, affordances and business models behind digital media and platforms, such as Facebook, X (previously Twitter), YouTube and Weibo, have changed the practices of science/health reporting. Platformisation offers new opportunities to bring valuable health/science news to audiences with limited access to and low interest...
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This article draws on a qualitative interview-based study and the framework of the ‘critical incident’ to explore whether, how and for whom the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic saw an increased uptake of data-driven automation in Australian newsrooms and with what implications for the field. Our findings show that, while news workers combined an...
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The panorama of editorial automation is moving at a fast clip in many organisations around the world. However, the transition towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies as supporting processes go at their own pace in other contexts beyond the US and Europe and cast doubts about their implementation. This article examines...
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Much of the professional fact-checking activities that were once conducted by political journalists and news media during electoral periods or political debates, or what Luengo and Garcia-Marin (2020) call fact checking of top-down claims, now focus on assessing dis/misinformation emerging from social media users, or bottom-up claims. Between 2019...
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This article examines the multilingual audiences of Russian outlet RT on Facebook. RT is a state media outlet known for spreading strategic Kremlin narratives and disinformation in support of Russia’s domestic and foreign policy objectives to large and multilingual global audiences. RT serves as a central pillar of the Russian information influence...
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Encompassed by the disputed term ‘fake news’, a variety of overtly or covertly biased, skewed, or falsified reports claiming to present factual information are now seen to constitute a critical challenge to the effective dissemination of news and information across established and emerging democratic societies. Such content – variously also classif...

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... Park and Sang's (2023) further analysis of Google's transparency data highlighted differences among countries with varying political systems, and emphasised the uncertainties introduced by executive interventions in governing democratic discourse. In addition, Glazunova et al. (2023) present a framework for platform policy auditing that reveals the inconsistencies in policy implementation by major platforms and the measures taken towards Russia's state-controlled media outlets in 2022. Despite these insights, a nuanced approach to understand the interactions among these governing actors is still much needed, particularly in the contexts of TikTok, emerging short-video platforms which present unique content modalities and geopolitical implications. ...
... Cross-language studies are even more rare [14]. Existing works on RT are usually limited to specific case studies and investigate its organizational structure and culture [7], [15] or its tools and methods of influence [11], [16]. However, we still lack a holistic understanding of RT's strategic output and the evolution of its narratives over time. ...