🚨 New publication! Readers find traditionally-crafted news articles more comprehensible than articles produced with automation. However, they were equally satisfied by the automated & manually-written articles' character of writing & narrative structure & flow journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... - ThreadSky

neilthurman.bsky.social • 104 days ago

🚨 New publication! Readers find traditionally-crafted news articles more comprehensible than articles produced with automation. However, they were equally satisfied by the automated & manually-written articles' character of writing & narrative structure & flow

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14648849241262204

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neilthurman.bsky.social•104 days ago

Many thanks to @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social for funding the research!

neilthurman.bsky.social•104 days ago

With the help of @yougov.bsky.social, we recruited 3,135 online news consumers in the UK to read either one of 12 articles produced with the help of automation or one of a dozen articles that had been fully manually-written by journalists.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14648849241262204

neilthurman.bsky.social•104 days ago

Readers found the 12 automated articles significantly less comprehensible & were significantly less satisfied with how the automated articles helped them picture what the story was about & with the appropriateness & accessibility of some of the vocabulary.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14648849241262204

neilthurman.bsky.social•104 days ago

Readers were also significantly less satisfied with the way the automated articles handled numbers and data: from how many numbers they contained to how they used absolute and rounded numbers, percentages, and numeric analogies.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14648849241262204

neilthurman.bsky.social•104 days ago

The deficiencies readers perceived in the automated articles’ handling of numbers and word choice partly explain why they were harder to understand.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14648849241262204

neilthurman.bsky.social•104 days ago

We suggest that when creating / subbing automated news articles, journalists should aim to reduce the quantity of numbers, better explain words that readers are unlikely to understand, & increase the amount of descriptive language.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14648849241262204

imkehenkel.bsky.social•103 days ago

Congrats to Sina, Florian and you - looks interesting 🙂

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