Tomás Dodds
Biographic Data
| ID | 1257636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomás Dodds |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomás |
| FAMILY NAME | Dodds |
| SIGNATURE | DODDS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4724-5307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Strategic Opacity
Open source narratives have long been associated with promises of broader participation and more distributed oversight. By making code publicly available, companies often claim to enable users to modify and build on systems, even as key decision rights over deployment and governance remain centralized. Our comparative analysis of DeepSeek and OpenAI’s licensing agreements reveals a more complex reality. Transparency and control are not opposites;…
AI Hype in Journalism
Remediating Authority
status: Published online
On Controlled Change
The ethics of open source investigations
With the exploding availability of online data, digital open-source investigations (OSINV) methods have become increasingly popular in journalism. However, practitioners face novel challenges related to the tension between journalism’s transparency ideals and its duty to safeguard the privacy and security of data subjects. This article explores this tension by drawing on data from eight in-depth interviews with professional open-source investigat…
Introduction to the Special Issue
On the Institutionalization of Osinv in Journalistic Practice
Open-source intelligence investigations (OSI) have slowly transformed from an ad hoc, grassroots practice relegated to internet sleuths into an increasingly formalized and well-structured technique for journalistic research. By leveraging publicly available data, such as satellite images, social media posts, or official records, to expose misinformation and create actionable insights, organizations like Bellingcat or Forensic Architecture have us…
Old wine in new bottles
Guiding the way
With the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the news industry, media organizations have begun publishing guidelines that aim to promote the responsible, ethical, and unbiased implementation of AI-based technologies. These guidelines are expected to serve journalists and media workers by establishing best practices and a framework that helps them navigate ever-evolving AI tools. Drawing on institutional theory and …
The hidden threat of Argentina’s AI policing
Journalists “Attagged”
Desconocidos, precarios y multifacéticos
Las agencias internacionales de noticias están experimentando una transformación en sus modelos de negocios, procesos de producción periodística y la forma con la que se relacionan con sus audiencias y clientes. La irrupción de nuevos canales de comunicación de menor costo y la rapidez de las redes sociales tensiona el rol clave que estas agencias juegan para satisfacer mercados y audiencias locales. Este artículo busca entender de qué manera las…
The AI turn in journalism
In this essay, we argue that, unlike previous changes in digital media technologies over the past few decades, this AI “turn” in journalism forces us to rethink journalism’s identity and its relationship with audiences. While AI complicates and challenges some existing professional, social, political, and economic structures, it also offers new ways to realize desired journalistic objectives that were previously considered to be impractical, if n…
Knowledge Silos as a Barrier to Responsible AI Practices in Journalism? Exploratory Evidence from Four Dutch News Organisations
The effective adoption of responsible AI practices in journalism requires a concerted effort to bridge different perspectives, including technological, editorial, and managerial. Among the many challenges that could impact information sharing around responsible AI inside news organisations are knowledge silos, where information is isolated within one part of the organisation and not easily shared with others. This study aims to study how knowledg…
Quantifying Community Interest
This study examines how editors in Dutch hyperlocal newspapers use technologies for audience metrics in the news production process. As news organizations, especially small-scaled, low-budget ones, strive to engage and retain their readership, metrics analysis provides invaluable insights into audience preferences and behaviors. However, the use and misuse of audience metrics also risk increasing the dependency of small-budget newsrooms on media …
Collaborative Coding Cultures
As the use of “big data” in journalism has become an increasing practice in recent years, its exercise is no longer limited to newsrooms in Europe and North America. The prevalence of coding cultures and collaboration in newsrooms worldwide has risen, in part to tackle challenges related to information overflow. This collaboration has been facilitated partly by the popularization of low-cost code hosting platforms such as GitHub. GitHub is a well…
It Became No Man’s Land”
Online harassment against media workers has been on the rise, prompting academic and international organizations to call for comprehensive measures that could protect journalists from intimidation and threats on social media platforms. Despite these efforts, research shows little success in curbing the issue of hostility towards media professionals. With this article, we aim to explore journalists’ perceptions regarding online harassment and the …
Bound by Exile
The escalating dangers journalists face globally have led to a marked increase in media professionals seeking safety away from their home countries. As a result, journalists are increasingly forced to choose between silence and survival, with many opting for the latter in the form of diaspora relocation. This article investigates the role of kinship in community building among diaspora journalists, highlighting how these networks impact their col…
Popularity-driven Metrics
As digital technologies have made their way into news production, allowing news organizations to measure audience behaviors and engagement in real-time, click-based and editorial goals have become increasingly intertwined. Ongoing developments in algorithmic technologies allow editors to bring their audience into the newsroom using specialized tools such as Chartbeat or Google Analytics. This article examines how these technologies have affected …
Adapting to Twitter
As more journalists rely on social media platforms like Twitter to gather information and report the news, scholars have identified an increasing tension between traditional journalistic values and reporters’ construction of online personas. Moreover, networked journalists build these mediated personas—following platforms’ affordances—to better engage with fellow journalists and algorithmic audiences. Drawing on data from 15 in-depth interviews w…
Una Mujer Fantástica
What is a monster? Not always an enormous hairy beast or a diffused shimmer of mist, but the reflection in a mirror of a body deeply sunken in shame. Unrecognizable and confused. Not a shame that e
Propaganda in Times of Social Media Warfare
A Global Political Morality
Islamism
Since the 9/11 attacks in New York, the word “Islamism” has been extensively used in journalism, political speeches, and academic publications. It rapidly became a new word in headlines worldwide
Young people, citizenship and political participation
Young people, citizenship and political participation: combating civic deficit? by Mark Chou, Jean-Paul Gagnon, Catherine Hartung, and Lesley J. Pruitt." Democratization, 26(2), pp. 343–344
Popularity-driven Metrics
As digital technologies have made their way into news production, allowing news organizations to measure audience behaviors and engagement in real-time, click-based and editorial goals have become increasingly intertwined. Ongoing developments in algorithmic technologies allow editors to bring their audience into the newsroom using specialized tools such as Chartbeat or Google Analytics. This article examines how these technologies have affected …
The AI turn in journalism
In this essay, we argue that, unlike previous changes in digital media technologies over the past few decades, this AI “turn” in journalism forces us to rethink journalism’s identity and its relationship with audiences. While AI complicates and challenges some existing professional, social, political, and economic structures, it also offers new ways to realize desired journalistic objectives that were previously considered to be impractical, if n…
Adapting to Twitter
As more journalists rely on social media platforms like Twitter to gather information and report the news, scholars have identified an increasing tension between traditional journalistic values and reporters’ construction of online personas. Moreover, networked journalists build these mediated personas—following platforms’ affordances—to better engage with fellow journalists and algorithmic audiences. Drawing on data from 15 in-depth interviews w…
Quantifying Community Interest
This study examines how editors in Dutch hyperlocal newspapers use technologies for audience metrics in the news production process. As news organizations, especially small-scaled, low-budget ones, strive to engage and retain their readership, metrics analysis provides invaluable insights into audience preferences and behaviors. However, the use and misuse of audience metrics also risk increasing the dependency of small-budget newsrooms on media …
It Became No Man’s Land”
Online harassment against media workers has been on the rise, prompting academic and international organizations to call for comprehensive measures that could protect journalists from intimidation and threats on social media platforms. Despite these efforts, research shows little success in curbing the issue of hostility towards media professionals. With this article, we aim to explore journalists’ perceptions regarding online harassment and the …
Una Mujer Fantástica
What is a monster? Not always an enormous hairy beast or a diffused shimmer of mist, but the reflection in a mirror of a body deeply sunken in shame. Unrecognizable and confused. Not a shame that e
Posicionamiento de las mujeres como locutoras en las transmisiones de programas radiales en Santiago de Chile
Este artículo busca describir el rol de las mujeres en las radios de Frecuencia Modulada que transmiten en Santiago de Chile. Para ello levanta información respecto a la cantidad de mujeres que ocupan roles de locución y observa a través de la categorización de los programas qué espacios se les han asignado. Se trata de un análisis descriptivo que discute mediante las nociones del encuadre de género, agenda setting y análisis crítico feminista la…
Posicionamiento de las mujeres como locutoras en las transmisiones de programas radiales en Santiago de Chile
Este artículo busca describir el rol de las mujeres en las radios de Frecuencia Modulada que transmiten en Santiago de Chile. Para ello levanta información respecto a la cantidad de mujeres que ocupan roles de locución y observa a través de la categorización de los programas qué espacios se les han asignado. Se trata de un análisis descriptivo que discute mediante las nociones del encuadre de género, agenda setting y análisis crítico feminista la…
Propaganda in Times of Social Media Warfare
A Global Political Morality
Islamism
Since the 9/11 attacks in New York, the word “Islamism” has been extensively used in journalism, political speeches, and academic publications. It rapidly became a new word in headlines worldwide
Young people, citizenship and political participation
Young people, citizenship and political participation: combating civic deficit? by Mark Chou, Jean-Paul Gagnon, Catherine Hartung, and Lesley J. Pruitt." Democratization, 26(2), pp. 343–344
Una Mujer Fantástica
What is a monster? Not always an enormous hairy beast or a diffused shimmer of mist, but the reflection in a mirror of a body deeply sunken in shame. Unrecognizable and confused. Not a shame that e
Popularity-driven Metrics
As digital technologies have made their way into news production, allowing news organizations to measure audience behaviors and engagement in real-time, click-based and editorial goals have become increasingly intertwined. Ongoing developments in algorithmic technologies allow editors to bring their audience into the newsroom using specialized tools such as Chartbeat or Google Analytics. This article examines how these technologies have affected …
Adapting to Twitter
As more journalists rely on social media platforms like Twitter to gather information and report the news, scholars have identified an increasing tension between traditional journalistic values and reporters’ construction of online personas. Moreover, networked journalists build these mediated personas—following platforms’ affordances—to better engage with fellow journalists and algorithmic audiences. Drawing on data from 15 in-depth interviews w…
Collaborative Coding Cultures
As the use of “big data” in journalism has become an increasing practice in recent years, its exercise is no longer limited to newsrooms in Europe and North America. The prevalence of coding cultures and collaboration in newsrooms worldwide has risen, in part to tackle challenges related to information overflow. This collaboration has been facilitated partly by the popularization of low-cost code hosting platforms such as GitHub. GitHub is a well…
It Became No Man’s Land”
Online harassment against media workers has been on the rise, prompting academic and international organizations to call for comprehensive measures that could protect journalists from intimidation and threats on social media platforms. Despite these efforts, research shows little success in curbing the issue of hostility towards media professionals. With this article, we aim to explore journalists’ perceptions regarding online harassment and the …
Bound by Exile
The escalating dangers journalists face globally have led to a marked increase in media professionals seeking safety away from their home countries. As a result, journalists are increasingly forced to choose between silence and survival, with many opting for the latter in the form of diaspora relocation. This article investigates the role of kinship in community building among diaspora journalists, highlighting how these networks impact their col…
The ethics of open source investigations
With the exploding availability of online data, digital open-source investigations (OSINV) methods have become increasingly popular in journalism. However, practitioners face novel challenges related to the tension between journalism’s transparency ideals and its duty to safeguard the privacy and security of data subjects. This article explores this tension by drawing on data from eight in-depth interviews with professional open-source investigat…
Introduction to the Special Issue
On the Institutionalization of Osinv in Journalistic Practice
Open-source intelligence investigations (OSI) have slowly transformed from an ad hoc, grassroots practice relegated to internet sleuths into an increasingly formalized and well-structured technique for journalistic research. By leveraging publicly available data, such as satellite images, social media posts, or official records, to expose misinformation and create actionable insights, organizations like Bellingcat or Forensic Architecture have us…
Old wine in new bottles
Guiding the way
With the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the news industry, media organizations have begun publishing guidelines that aim to promote the responsible, ethical, and unbiased implementation of AI-based technologies. These guidelines are expected to serve journalists and media workers by establishing best practices and a framework that helps them navigate ever-evolving AI tools. Drawing on institutional theory and …
The hidden threat of Argentina’s AI policing
Journalists “Attagged”
Desconocidos, precarios y multifacéticos
Las agencias internacionales de noticias están experimentando una transformación en sus modelos de negocios, procesos de producción periodística y la forma con la que se relacionan con sus audiencias y clientes. La irrupción de nuevos canales de comunicación de menor costo y la rapidez de las redes sociales tensiona el rol clave que estas agencias juegan para satisfacer mercados y audiencias locales. Este artículo busca entender de qué manera las…
The AI turn in journalism
In this essay, we argue that, unlike previous changes in digital media technologies over the past few decades, this AI “turn” in journalism forces us to rethink journalism’s identity and its relationship with audiences. While AI complicates and challenges some existing professional, social, political, and economic structures, it also offers new ways to realize desired journalistic objectives that were previously considered to be impractical, if n…
Knowledge Silos as a Barrier to Responsible AI Practices in Journalism? Exploratory Evidence from Four Dutch News Organisations
The effective adoption of responsible AI practices in journalism requires a concerted effort to bridge different perspectives, including technological, editorial, and managerial. Among the many challenges that could impact information sharing around responsible AI inside news organisations are knowledge silos, where information is isolated within one part of the organisation and not easily shared with others. This study aims to study how knowledg…
Quantifying Community Interest
This study examines how editors in Dutch hyperlocal newspapers use technologies for audience metrics in the news production process. As news organizations, especially small-scaled, low-budget ones, strive to engage and retain their readership, metrics analysis provides invaluable insights into audience preferences and behaviors. However, the use and misuse of audience metrics also risk increasing the dependency of small-budget newsrooms on media …
Strategic Opacity
Open source narratives have long been associated with promises of broader participation and more distributed oversight. By making code publicly available, companies often claim to enable users to modify and build on systems, even as key decision rights over deployment and governance remain centralized. Our comparative analysis of DeepSeek and OpenAI’s licensing agreements reveals a more complex reality. Transparency and control are not opposites;…
AI Hype in Journalism
Remediating Authority
status: Published online
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Journalism (11 works) · Social Media and Politics (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Media Studies and Communication (8 works) · Business (7 works)