Dear colleagues,
I'm excited to share a new book — Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination (Polity) — written with Rodrigo Zamith and Tomás Dodds. The digital edition will be free with open access when it publishes in early August, and the opening chapter is available to read right now.
Although it centers on journalism, the book speaks to questions facing anyone living through the AI transition: where creative and intellectual labor is headed, how a handful of platforms are accumulating power over public knowledge, and what it means to learn, think, and stay informed when machines mediate so much of what we know.
Early readers have been generous. Charlie Beckett (Polis, LSE) calls it “a much-needed, calm, conceptual analysis of AI in contemporary journalism that cuts through the dystopian and utopian hype.”
You can get Chapter 1 now, and receive early access to the full book, by signing up at
journalismandai.comIf the book might fit a course you're teaching this fall, just write to us (book@journalismandai.com) and we’ll send everything early. The book is free for students, and at signup you can flag interest in teaching resources.
And if you'd like one of us to give a talk at your institution, we'd be glad to hear from you.
Thanks so much for your consideration.
All the best,
Seth C. Lewis (with Rodrigo Zamith and Tomás Dodds)
University of Oregon → University of Virginia (Aug 2026)
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Seth C. Lewis
Elcan Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor of AI & Media Studies
Department of Media Studies
University of Virginia
Coming soon: Journalism in the Age of AI
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Seth Lewis
Professor and Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media
U of Oregon
Eugene OR
United States
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