Josephine Lukito

Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Media, UT Austin

Lukito moderated the panel “AI in journalism: Ethics, opportunities and pitfalls” at the 25^th ISOJ. Watch the presentation here.

Josephine (“Jo”) Lukito (she/her) is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism and Media. She is also the director of the Media & Democracy Data Cooperative and a senior faculty research affiliate for the Center for Media Engagement. Jo’s work uses computational and machine learning approaches to study political language, with a focus on harmful digital content and multi-platform discursive flows. She also studies data access for researchers and journalists. Her work has been published in top-tiered journals such as Political Communication and Social Media + Society, and featured in Wired, Columbia Journalism Review, and Reuters.