Sonia Jawaid Shaikh

Papers

Total Citations

143

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About

Sonia Jawaid Shaikh is a leading voice at the intersection of artificial intelligence, journalism, and society. Her research critically examines how AI technologies—from automated news writing to algorithmic curation—are reshaping journalistic practices, professional norms, and public discourse. Shaikh’s most influential work, “Robots in the News and Newsrooms: Unpacking Meta-Journalistic Discourse on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism” (2022), has garnered 143 citations, establishing her as a key scholar in this emerging field. In this paper, she analyzes how journalists themselves discuss AI, revealing tensions between innovation and traditional journalistic values. Beyond this flagship study, Shaikh explores broader questions of algorithmic bias, media trust, and the ethical implications of deploying AI in news production. Her work is essential reading for researchers and students interested in the future of journalism, human-machine communication, and the societal impacts of automation. By bridging communication studies with critical AI scholarship, Shaikh provides a nuanced understanding of how technologies are not simply tools but active agents in shaping what news becomes and who gets to tell it.