Shared Utopias, distinct anxieties: Sociotechnical imaginaries of AI-in-journalism in American, French and Chinese newspapers (2019-2025)

Zijun Wang, John Downey, Xi Zhuang, School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing Normal University, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, Loughborough University

Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism

Published online on July 02, 2026

Abstract

Journalism, Ahead of Print.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is not merely a technical tool in journalism; its use reflects and reshapes different journalistic cultures. Using corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS), this comparative study examines 329 articles published between 2019 ...