Multilevel analysis reveals micro-level labor precarity drives digital and AI tool adoption among journalists, highlighting working conditions over national economic inequality.
Key Points
To examine how macro-level social inequality and micro-level labor precarity influence the adoption of advanced digital and AI tools among news media professionals.
Multilevel analysis of Worlds of Journalism Study survey data across 11 Latin American countries (N=4,250 journalists).
Evaluated macro-level inequality via the Gini coefficient and micro-level precarity via contractual instability and workload metrics.
Macro-level economic inequality (Gini coefficient) is not associated with the adoption of advanced digital tools or AI.
Micro-level labor precarity, characterized by contractual instability and excessive workloads, is significantly associated with technology adoption.
Cite This Study
Garcés-Prettel et al. (2026) studied this question.