Editor’s Note: Automating Verification, Negotiating Trust: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Electronic Media

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Artificial intelligence is a transformative technology that fundamentally changes the research questions and methodologies available in the study of electronic media, rather than merely providing new tools. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

Shuhua Zhou

doi:10.1080/08838151.2026.2725009

August 31, 2026Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

Editor’s Note: Automating Verification, Negotiating Trust: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Electronic Media

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Key Points

To examine how artificial intelligence reshapes methodological approaches, verification practices, and epistemic trust within the study of electronic media.
Critical editorial synthesis and conceptual analysis of emerging artificial intelligence tools in communication science and media studies.
Identifies artificial intelligence as a paradigm-shifting technology that fundamentally alters the scope of empirical research questions in electronic media.
Highlights the dual challenges of automating media verification while preserving institutional and public trust in digital communication environments.

Implication

Editorial commentary examines the impact of artificial intelligence on verification and trust in electronic media research, highlighting fundamental shifts in scholarly inquiry.

Abstract

Every so often a technology arrives that does not merely give a field new tools but changes what the field is able to ask. I believe artificial intelligence is one of those arrivals, and I want to ...

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Shuhua Zhou (2026) studied this question.

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