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Planning to study automation and the future of news production

We (Kevin Crowston, Jeffrey Nickerson, Lydia Chilton and Keren Henderson) received an NSF Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier planning grant (20-26583), "Planning to study automation and the future of news production".

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Wang, S., McKinnon-Crowley, J., Long, T., Lua, K. L., Henderson, K., Crowston, K., Nickerson, J. V., Hansen, M., & Chilton, L. B. (2026). The role of human creativity in the presence of AI creativity tools at work: A case study on AI-driven content transformation in journalism. Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2026.015

Bolici, F., Crowston, K., Varone, A., & Fudge, M. (2026). Rethinking programming skills in the age of generative AI. Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2026.863

McKinnon-Crowley, J., Lua, K., Crowston, K., & Henderson, K. (2026). Is this news? : How audiences recognize and evaluate emerging news genres in short-form video social media. Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2026.326

Katsiuba, D., Schwabe, G., Dolata, M., & Crowston, K. (2026). Improving customer feedback management with GenAI: An action design research study. In Hawai’i International Conference on System Science (HICSS). https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2026.632

Varone, A., Bolici, F., & Crowston, K. (2026). Prompting the past: Generative AI and organizational memory. European Conference on Information Systems TREO. https://aisel.aisnet.org/treos_ecis2026/13