Tech Giants, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Journalism

This book examines the impact of the so-called Big Five technology companies - Apple, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft - on the media landscape more generally and journalism in particular. It considers the impact of social media and AI on such things as fake news in the post-truth age.

Jason Whittaker is Head of the School of English and Journalism at the University of Lincoln. He worked for fifteen years as a tech journalist and has written extensively on magazine journalism and digital media, most recently as co-editor of the collection Online Journalism in Africa (2013) and as the author of Magazine Production (2016).