Laurence Dierickx
Information and Communication · Université Libre de Bruxelles
Research Interests
Journalism Science and Technology
Biography
Laurence Dierickx is a researcher and digital & data journalism teacher specializing in AI-driven journalism, fact-checking, and ethics. She holds a master's degree in journalism and information technology. Laurence is also a Scientific Collaborator at ReSIC (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB), a member of LaPIJ (Laboratoire des Pratiques et des Identités Journalistiques), and teaches data journalism at ULB. Additionally, she intermittently researches at Bergen University (AI/Fact-Checking/Information Disorder - NORDIS) as a post-doc researcher and is a research fellow for DDC x TrygFonden/University of Southern Denmark (generative AI and fact-checking). Before moving to academia, she was a professional (data/computational) journalist for 15 years.
Education
PhD in Information and Communication (Université Libre de Bruxeles) Master in Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies (MASTIC/Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Recent Google Scholar Publications
- Strategic Simplicity Gets the Most: Evaluating Prompting Techniques in Non-Expert AI-Assisted Fact-Checking
- What is a fact in the age of generative AI? Fact-checking as an epistemological lens
- Using it but not trusting it: Technology acceptance and generative AI in European fact-checking
- Transparency and fact-checking in open societies
- Journalisme et devoir de vérité à l’épreuve de la désinformation et des contenus générés
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5926-8720
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0N9TTo0AAAAJ&hl
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=None
- Personal Weblink https://ohmybox.info/