A study on the effects of AI authorship in science news reporting by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s College of Communication and Information (CCI) team was presented at the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference, held July 13–17, 2025. The conference was hosted by the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
The conference paper, Science News Reporting and the Effects of AI Authorship: A Study of Credibility and Trustworthiness in Automated Journalism, explores how AI involvement in authorship may shape perceptions of credibility in science news.
The interdisciplinary research team included School of Journalism and Media Assistant Professor Shiyu Yang and Associate Professor Mustafa Oz, Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations Associate Professor Matthew Pittman, and CCI doctoral student Scott Greeves.
The research was funded by CCI Information Integrity Institute.