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PhD (Queensland University of Queensland)
Phoebe will work with the Generative Authenticity signature project team, and specifically examine Generative AI and Authenticity in Journalism and Human Rights Media. Having just completed her PhD study in QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre under the School of Communication, her research focuses on journalism practice and discourse and considers how journalists represent reality. While her PhD has evaluated how journalists engage with misinformation claims, her ADM+S work considers the affordances and complexities of generative AI for journalism.
As a researcher, Phoebe explores how news practices (especially representation) relate to ethics, power, and social change. She is particularly interested in how journalists strive to achieve normative goals like objectivity and advocacy in the context of interdisciplinary issues such as misinformation, radicalisation, or generative AI. In these contexts, she considers the nexus between journalism practice, audience trust, and political developments to examine best and worst news practices, and opportunities for improvements.