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AI as a Production Assistant in Undergraduate Podcasting: Negotiating Authorship, Language, Agency, and Self-Efficacy (113292)
Session Chair: Erick-Iroel Heredia-Carrillo
Wednesday, 11 November 2026 09:30
Session: Session 1
Room: Room G (4F)
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
As journalism educators navigate how AI is integrated into their classrooms, teaching increasingly requires negotiating how students can benefit from AI as a production assistant while retaining authorship, creativity, and human judgment. Less is known about how AI-assisted production intersects with storytelling, linguistic accessibility, and creative agency in experiential media-production courses. This study examines these relationships in an undergraduate Radio and Podcasting course at United International College in Florida, United States.
Using a qualitative design-case, the study examines an undergraduate podcasting course involving eight Communication and Mass Media students who produced and published original podcasts. Data include student interviews, eight podcasts, course materials, and production artifacts, analyzed through inductive-deductive thematic analysis informed by narrative identity, digital storytelling, experiential learning, and critical AI literacy.
Preliminary findings indicate that students primarily used AI as production and linguistic scaffolding for script organization, language refinement, pronunciation, timing, audio enhancement, research, voice anonymization for source protection, and branding while retaining narrative control. Multilingual students described AI as supporting English-language expression and professional fluency, while the only native English-speaking participant deliberately rejected generative AI to preserve authenticity and creative ownership. Students also demonstrated critical agency by comparing, modifying, redirecting, or rejecting AI outputs. Podcast production fostered self-efficacy and emerging narrative and professional identities.
These findings inform Human-Centered AI Storytelling Pedagogy, which defines meaningful AI integration by students’ capacity to retain narrative intention, editorial judgment, creative agency, and ethical responsibility.
Authors:
Marcela Moyano, United International College, United States
About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Marcela Moyano is the director of Communications and Advancement of United International College (UIC).
Connect on Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcela-moyano-ed-d-18a27024/
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