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If you’ve ever wondered what “Nieman Lab written by robots” would look like, this is the piece for you.
Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here are what they consider 10 of the most important pieces of new research into digital and social media published in 2017.
“The bot was made to argue about something. The point of the bot wasn’t to serve you. It was to propose an argument in and of itself.”
“Let’s have a computer do what a computer’s good at, and let’s have a human do what a human’s good at.”
Developed by the Times R&D lab, the Editor tool scans text to suggest article tags in real time. But the automatic tagging system won’t be moving into the newsroom soon.