背景:先进算法技术的使用正日益改变着训练有素的专业人员的工作性质。在媒体行业,经常受到关注的技术进步之一是自动化新闻,通常被理解为通过软件和算法自动生成新闻故事的解决方案,除了最初的编程之外,没有任何人的输入。方法:为了对现有的自动化新闻实证研究进行系统回顾,我分析了一系列可以解释语义的变量,精选学术文章的时间和地理特征及其研究方法,理论背景和研究领域。然后,我参与并批判性地评估了我获得的元数据,为研究人员提供了对主导该领域的主要辩论的良好理解。结果:我的研究结果表明,“自动新闻”一词应该受到质疑,应该更多地关注非英语奖学金,应更好地记录技术对媒体从业人员的集体和个人影响,并且建立完善的社会学理论,例如制度主义和布迪厄的场论,可以构成两个研究自动化新闻实践的适当框架。结论:因此,本系统文献为研究人员提供了自动化新闻研究领域中发生的主要挑战和辩论的概述。未来的研究应该,特别是,利用制度主义和场论来探索自动化新闻如何影响媒体从业者的工作,这可以帮助发掘跨媒体组织的共同模式。
Background: The use of advanced algorithmic techniques is increasingly changing the nature of work for highly trained professionals. In the media industry, one of the technical advancements that often comes under the spotlight is automated
journalism, a solution generally understood as the auto generation of journalistic stories through software and algorithms, without any human input except for the initial programming. Methods: In order to conduct a systematic review of existing empirical research on automated
journalism, I analysed a range of variables that can account for the semantical, chronological and geographical features of a selection of academic articles as well as their research methods, theoretical backgrounds and fields of inquiry. I then engaged with and critically assessed the meta-data that I obtained to provide researchers with a good understanding of the main debates dominating the field. Results: My findings suggest that the expression \"automated
journalism\" should be called into question, that more attention should be devoted to non-English speaking scholarship, that the collective and individual impacts of the technology on media practitioners should be better documented and that well-established sociological theories such as institutionalism and Bourdieu\'s field theory could constitute two adequate frameworks to study automated journalism practices. Conclusions: This systematic literature therefore provides researchers with an overview of the main challenges and debates that are occurring within the field of automated
journalism studies. Future studies should, in particular, make use of institutionalism and field theory to explore how automated
journalism is impacting the work of media practitioners, which could help unearth common patterns across media organisations.