Artificial intelligence in the media sphere: Research directions, professional contradictions and new risks

The editors of the issue compared the key areas of artificial intelligence research in media in global science with the Russian context. In 2025, the following topics can be considered as uniting researchers from all over the world: theories of the introduction of AI into communication practice and their criticism; deontology of the use of AI in journalism and social communication; the practice of creating AI content in federal and regional media; AI in social networks and messengers; visual media content and AI; perception of AI and AI news in the media industry and the media audience: from hopes to fears and confrontation; government policy, platforms, media companies in the field of using AI in communication; machine learning, small and large language models in media content analysis; recognition of emotions, irony, malicious content based on machine learning; AI in fake news analytics news and disinformation. The key areas of further research are the formation of hybrid models of human-AI interaction, the development of regulations and ethical codes for the use of neural networks in journalism, the analysis of the uneven digital transformation of regional media, the study of cognitive effects and professional adaptation of journalists, socio-political and technological parameters of the development of a new social environment and its public regulation.