RIO TUASIKAL
PROJECTS AND SERVICE
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Can AI Replace Journalists? The Future of Journalism in The Age of Prompts | Magdalene
Antonia Timmerman and Rio Tuasikal spoke about their reports on AI and media on the RAME podcast by Magdalene. The two revealed AI biases in journalism and how the media industry is struggling to stay relevant amid the dominance of big tech companies in the information ecosystem. It also discussed how tech corporations use utopian promises as a way to justify societal and ecological ‘sacrifices’.
Role: Podcast guest
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Stylebook for Gender-Sensitive Reporting | Asian American Journalist Association (AAJA)-Asia Chapter
In collaboration with over 30 journalists and representatives from Women’s and LGBTQ groups from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore and South Korea, AAJA-Asia has produced a stylebook for gender-sensitive reporting. This new resource is available in English, Chinese, Indonesian, Korean and Tagalog.
Role: Indonesia team
OP-ED AND ANALYSIS
The Irony of Indonesia 4.0 and Its Obsession of Creating Useless Apps | Project Multatuli
This is not just about budget waste and efficiency. Nor is it about the effectiveness of apps or their socialisation in the field. More profoundly, this questions the government's paradigm that believes that many things can, and for some reason must, be solved with digital apps.
Indonesia's 'Algorithm Hill' and the Illusion of Techno-Solutionism | Anotasi
In this article, I do not intend to discuss the opportunities or challenges of the project. Nor will I analyse the development of the digital economy in Indonesia. Instead, I will focus on perspectives that can be used to evaluate the presence of digital technology in society. This article aims to dissect the digital euphoria and reveal things that are usually hidden in this narrative.