Shannon Zenner, Ph.D.
szenner.bsky.social
🌟 Professor of Communication Design at Elon University 🖌 Exploring the intersection of #VisualCommunication, #AI, and #Design 📚 Researching typography, political communication, & AI in creative processes 🎓 Educator | 📊 Researcher | 🎨 Designer
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A big thank you to Laura and Shannon for starting this conversation in our Lab! We're looking forward to seeing this research getting published and informing professional decisions in journalism.
Show Post💬 Because this is still a new phenomenon, the strength of these reactions to AI may change over time and across publics, especially if new developments emerge. Audiences may become accustomed to AI use in media production, or further negotiate how they approach the issue from a moral standpoint.
Show Post🔎 AI disclosures caused Gen Z to go into "detective mode": once they noticed the AI label, they stopped focusing on the news content and instead tried to find visual flaws. Any initial trust in the post was lost upon seeing the label. So, transparency can backfire and distract in big ways.
Show Post🏷️Without labels, AI-generated images got rated as more credible than those taken by photojournalists — participants had trouble identifying whether the images were artificial or not. This suggests that image generator performance is good enough to fly under the radar, even in journalistic contexts.
Show PostCombining info from eye trackers with participant interviews, they analyzed how young people process news in Instagram post formats, what they notice first, and how they interpret different types of image credit labels (taken by a photojournalist, created with AI, or no attribution at all).
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