4 research idea notes tagged “media”. Read them as Markdown, JSON or an Atom feed.
Retail investors are a large topic in the finance journals, but only 8 of 139 recent papers on them carry a social-media keyword, and "finfluencers" appears on just 2. Do the trades that follow a finance influencer's post earn anything, and who profits from the audience?
Papers in the last 30 days — social media: 7
Misinformation, fake news detection and rumor detection appear on 185 recent papers, 140 of them in AI journals, and only 10 carry a market, stock, investor or finance keyword. Fake earnings leaks, forged press releases and coordinated rumours now move prices within minutes. How much do they move, who profits, and can detection work at trading speed?
Papers in the last 30 days — misinformation: 2 · fake news detection: 6
Deepfake detection appears on 45 recent papers and AI-generated image detection on 13, almost all in AI journals, with 23 papers in the last quarter against about 21 per quarter before. Detectors score well on the datasets they were built with and fail on the next generator. How well do they work on real fraud, elections and markets, and who should run them?
Papers in the last 30 days — deepfake detection: 1
Copyright protection, data ownership, content creators and the creative industries appear on 96 recent papers across the AI, management and economics journals, and 37 of them involve generative AI. Courts are deciding whether training on copyrighted work is fair use, and licensing deals are being signed. What are creators losing or gaining, and what would a licensing market look like?
Papers in the last 30 days — copyright protection: 1 · data ownership: 1
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research ideas tagged “media”. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/media
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Research ideas tagged “media”},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/media}},
urldate = {2026-10-23},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}