Engagement
I'm frequently engaged in public communication, including interviews with media outlets, speaking at conferences, and delivering lectures and talks. For media interview requests, please contact my office.
Guest Talk at the Oxford Internet Institute, April 24, 2024
Public Speaking
Keynote Speaker
2. Dodds, T. (2024, December). Generative Artificial Intelligence in Journalism. Keynote presented at EUscreen workshop; Barcelona, Spain. [Program]
1. Dodds, T. (2021, November). Nuevas tecnologías y disonancia profesional. Paper presented at Conferencia Cultura Social Media 2021; Santiago, Chile (Online due to Covid-19). [Video]
Conference Presentations
19. Dodds, T., Palomino-Flores, P. & Pool-Rojas, J. (June 2024). Incorporating AI Ethics in Journalism Education: Lessons from Latin America. Paper presented at the ICA 2024 “Media and Communication in Global Latinidades” Pre-Conference. Gold Coast, Australia.
18. Dodds, T., Yeung, W. N. & Arafat, R. (April 2024). Bound by Exile: Exploring Kinship Dynamics Among Diaspora Journalists. Paper presented at ECREA Journalism Studies Conference. Sheffield, UK.
17. Vandendaele, A. & Dodds, T. (April 2024). Looking for Balance - The Impact of Audience Metrics on Dutch TV Reporters’ (Perceived) Sense of Editorial Freedom. Paper presented at ECREA Journalism Studies Conference. Sheffield, UK.
16. Yeung, J. & Dodds, T. (November 2023). Digitality-as-a-process: The Co-construction of Digitality and New Media Technologies. Paper presented at the Society for the Social Studies of Science 4S Conference. Honolulu, US.
15. de-Lima-Santos, M., Yeung, J. & Dodds, T. (October 2023). AI guidelines in the news media worldwide. Paper presented at the International Symposium - AI Cultures Communications Between Humans and Machines in A Plural World. Torino, Italy.
14. Vandendaele, A. & Dodds, T. (September 2023). Translating data: Strategies for news audience engagement across social media platforms. Paper presented at the Future of Journalism 2023 Conference. Cardiff, UK.
13. Dodds, T., Vandendaele, A., Simon, F., de-Lima Santos, F. & Helberger, N. (September 2023). Defining responsible AI in journalism: Reporters’ perceptions on automated decision-making and algorithmic bias. Paper presented at the Future of Journalism 2023 Conference. Cardiff, UK.
12. Dodds, T., Reséndez, V., von Nordheim, G., Araujo, T. & Möller, J. (May 2023). Collaborative Coding Cultures: How Journalists Use GitHub as a Trading Zone. Poster presented at the ICA 2023 Conference. Toronto, Canada.
11. Torres, G. & Dodds, T. (May 2023). Citizen data journalism: Knowledge production with open-source technologies. Paper presented at the ICA 2023 “Media and Communication in Global Latinidades” Pre-Conference. Toronto, Canada.
10. Geboers, M., Dodds, T. & Boukes, M. (May 2023). #DefundtheBBC: How social media platform’s affordances exacerbate violence against journalists. Paper presented at the ICA 2023 Conference. Toronto, Canada.
9. Dodds, T. & Geboers, M. (November 2022). Periodismo, plataformas y violencia digital. Paper presented at the VIII Congreso de la Asociación Nacional de Investigadores en Comunicación (INCOM). Viña del Mar, Chile.
8. Dodds, T. (March 2021). Infrastructures of resistance: The battle against misinformation in a context of social unrest. Paper presented at ECREA Political Communication Conference “Communicating crisis: Political communication in the age of uncertainty.” Bucharest, Romania (Online due to Covid-19).
7. Dodds, T. (December 2020). Citizen-generated fact-checking platforms: Outgrowing failing mediatic infrastructures. Paper presented at the Prague Media Point Live 2020 - What's Working. Prague, Czech Republic (Online due to Covid-19).
6. Dodds, T. (December 2019). LGBT community-based organizations as news sources: Political communication in shifting contexts. Paper presented at the Prague Media Point 2019 - What's Working. Prague, Czech Republic.
5. Dodds, T. (November 2018). Collective silence inside Chilean mass media: How to identify self-censorship during ethnographic fieldwork. Paper presented at the Ph.D. Conference 2018: Vulnerability and resilience in research and representation. Leiden, The Netherlands.
4. Dodds, T. (November 2018). How has digital technology transformed journalism: A newsroom ethnography on media infrastructure, time, and form. Paper presented at the Prague Media Point 2018 - Media and Technology: Innovative Journalism in a Contested Political Space. Prague, Czech Republic.
3. Dodds, T. & Amor, I. (September 2017). Women’s voices: role and position of women journalists in radio outlets. Paper presented at the IV Congreso de la Asociación Nacional de Investigadores en Comunicación (INCOM). Santiago, Chile.
2. Dodds, T. & Trujillo, M. (June 2017). Coverage and media framing of the abortion law in Chile: Between public health and the political agenda. Paper presented at the 9th Conference of the Nordic Latin American Research Network (NOLAN). Gothenburg, Sweden.
1. Dodds, T. (March 2017). Criminalization of social protest and freedom of speech in Chile. Paper presented at the International Symposium “Media and Fear.” Lund, Sweden.
Panels & Roundtables
8. “AI Technology Challenges and Opportunities for Journalism,” with Kolina Koltai and Thomas Wolf. Panel at BellingFest, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2024.
7. “AI in Newsrooms: Beyond the hype to practical solutions,” with Theresa J. Seipp, Laurens Vreekamp, & Reshmi Pillai. Workshop at the Network Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2024. [Program]
6. “Investigación sobre noticias, audiencias e IA,” with Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Mónica Humeres, & Alexis Apablaza. “CAMBIA ´24: La irrupción de la inteligencia artificial en el periodismo latinoamericano” Conference in Santiago, Chile. 2024. [Video]
5. “Roundtable: Experts’ Perspective on Policy and Regulation,” with Peggy Valcke, Renate Schroeder, Júlia Tar & Lidia Dutkiewicz. “EU Vision for Media Policy in the Era of AI” Event in Brussels, Belgium. 2024. [Program]
4. “Artificial Intelligence in Dutch Regional Newsrooms: Prospects and Perspectives,” with Reshmi G. Pillai, Theresa J. Seipp & Renée van der Nat. Mozilla Fest in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2024. [Program]
3. “What Generative AI Means for Journalism and How We Study It,” with Erik Borra, Seth Lewis, Anna Schjøtt Hansen, Gregory P. Perreault, & Stefania Milan. ECREA Pre-Conference Mapping AI Actor Constellations in News Media and Journalism in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2024. [Program]
2. “Global Journalism in Precarious Times: Challenges and Opportunities,” with Daniela Dimitrova, Claudia Mellado, Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, H. Denis Wu, & Manuel Alejandro Guerrero. UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day in Santiago, Chile. 2024. [Video]
1. “How Digital Violence in Social Media Platforms Impact Press Freedom,” with Marloes Geboers, Mark Boukes, Justin Yeung, & Eirliani Abdul Rahman. UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day in Santiago, Chile. 2024. [Program]
Talks
7. “Anticipating the use of artificial intelligence in newsrooms.” JournalismAI Connect. June 24th, 2024.
6. “Refusing AI: How Journalists Avoid Falling for AI’s Hype.” Oxford Internet Institute. April 24th, 2024. [Video]
5. “Using AI in the newsroom: Changing media industries,” with Ammina Kothari, Patricia Ventura, & Florencia Coelho for the AI, Media & Democracy Lab. April 21st, 2022. [Video]
4. “Professional dissonance in journalism: Algorithmic publics and platformization?” for the CADS Spotlight seminar at Leiden University. February 14th, 2022. [Link]
3. “Algorithmic transformations, new audiences and changing newsrooms”, with Pablo J. Boczkowski & Edson C. Tandoc Jr. for the AI, Media & Democracy Lab. September 13th, 2021. [Video]
2. “Memes, viralización y política” with Julian Williams for the Núcleo Inteligencia Artificial, Sociedad, Información y Comunicación; Universidad de Chile & Wikimedia Chile. October 2nd, 2020. [Video]
1. “Evaluando la relación entre el consumo televisivo y las actitudes hacia personas viviendo con VIH Sida en Chile” with Felipe García at Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen, Universidad de Chile. June 10th, 2016. [Link]
In the Media
5. Estudio: 57% de las audiencias en Chile cree que la IA aumentará la generación de fake news. El Mostrador, 2024. [Link]
4. AI newsroom guidelines look very similar, says a researcher who studied them. He thinks this is bad news. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2024. [Link]
3. Tomás Dodds: ‘Journalisten missen basiskennis over AI.’ SVDJ, 2024. [Link]
2. “La forma en la que la IA transforme al periodismo va a depender del grado de libertad que los periodistas tengan para adaptar, integrar y moldear estas tecnologías a sus propios valores e ideales.” Vergara240, 2024. [Link]
1. Je reis boeken met AI? Binnenkort kan het! NAPNieuws, 2024. [Link]
Conference Organization
2. Porlezza, C., Amigo, L., Cools, H., Di Salvo, P. & Dodds, T. (September 2024). Mapping AI Actor Constellations in News Media and Journalism Critical Perspectives on Power (Im-)balances, Limited Autonomy, and Reconfigured Practices. Pre-Conference for ECREA Pre-Conference. Ljubljana, Slovenia. [Program]
1. Resendez, V., Schjøtt Hansen, A., Seipp, J., Diakopolous, N., Dodds, T., Meese, J., Helberger, N. & Vreese, C. (May 2023). Building the Conditions for Responsible Human-Centric AI Systems. Pre-Conference for ICA 2023. Toronto, Canada. [Blog Post]