CMCR Research Talk
Mediated Trust: From News Media to AI
20 Oct 2026 – 12:30 PM – CVA 1022
CMCR is pleased to announce an upcoming research talk in collaboration with International Chinese Communication Association (ICCA), titled Mediated Trust: From News Media to AI
We are pleased to feature:
🔶 Terry Flew, Professor of Digital Communications and Culture, The University of Sydney; Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow
In this presentation I want to elaborate upon the concept of mediated trust as arising at the intersection of communications as social practice, institutions as containers of public trust, and evolving digital technologies. In proposing that this provides new insights into communications topics such as post-truth, misinformation and the mediatization of politics, I do not consider communications, institutions and technologies to be three separate sets of categories, but rather as three domains that fold into one another.
I will apply this framework to two fields. The first is that of news media, where I will consider the “crisis of trust” in traditional journalism and news media forms, and the rise of alternative formats and genres enabled by digital technologies but also associated with the sustainability dilemmas facing news media publishing. The second is that of artificial intelligence (AI), where the changing framework of communication throws into question many of the underlying core concepts of communications, most notably the idea that communication is an essentially human practice enabled by media technologies.
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