Introductory Note: Communication and Artificial Intelligence

Alberto Teixeira de Sá is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Minho. He is a full member of the Communication and Society Research Centre, where he has been conducting interdisciplinary research on the sociotechnical dynamics of cultural and collective memory, with a particular emphasis on media archives and digital preservation, the central theme of his doctoral thesis. His research interests also extend to medieval urban history, the subject of his master’s thesis, as well as to memory technologies and cultural heritage, social network analysis, and data visualisation applied to journalism, particularly in the context of health communication. He has participated in several funded research projects, most notably Audire and MigraMediaActs, and coordinates “Curtas CC”, a pedagogical and cultural initiative. He also serves as general chairman of the international conference “Artech 2025”. His scholarly output includes book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, and presentations at international conferences, with a particular focus on the interplay between communication, memory, and digital archives, as well as on media arts, audiovisual and multimedia productions. Throughout his academic career, he has held various leadership roles, including the current director of the master’s programme in Media Arts and previous positions as programme director of the bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences and deputy head of department. He teaches across undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels in the fields of audiovisual and multimedia studies, as well as media arts, and has supervised numerous graduate students in these areas.

Luis Miguel Pedrero is a journalist, professor, and researcher at Francisco de Vitoria University, where he coordinates the Media MIND (Media, Innovation, and Digital Culture) research group. He has been a news editor and program scriptwriter at Cadena SER, Cadena COPE, and LOS40, as well as a consultant at Kiss FM, Atresmedia, and several regional radio and television corporations. He has been a guest lecturer at numerous universities in Spain and Latin America. Author of more than 100 articles and book chapters on communication and media, with a particular focus on radio and audio, including La Radio Musical en España (Music Radio in Spain); La Transformación Digital de la Radio (The Digital Transformation of Radio); and Cartografía de la Comunicación Postdigital (Cartography of Post-Digital Communication). He co-directs the projects ESCUCHAD.es (on the digital audio industry in Spain) and AUDIO CON_SENTIDO (design of an age-based guidance code for podcasts). Member of the jury for the Ondas radio and podcast awards, the Gabo Awards, the Produ Awards, and the iVoox Awards. He is co-editor of AudioGen, a newsletter on audio in Spanish, and a member of the board of directors of the Spanish Society of Journalism.