EXPLORING AUTONOMOUS DELIVERY ROBOTS IN NEWS MEDIA: A NEURAL TOPIC MODELING APPROACH

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This paper analyzes news coverage of Autonomous Delivery Robots (ADRs) using BERTopic, a neural topic modeling framework. Recalling the watchdog role of journalism in the context of transparency in democratic governance, our analysis of 13,154 ADR-related news articles reveals the focus topics of the Korean news media. The extracted topics have a notable omission regarding the rights and safety of Pedestrians and Bicyclists (PnBs), prompting a reconsideration of the intersection of emerging technologies, their societal impacts, and the media. The observed phenomenon, which may not be limited to local, is defined as a ‘watchdog failure’. As Human Pathway Automation (HPA) is underway worldwide, this paper contributes to motivating researchers worldwide to use BERTopic to investigate whether similar phenomena occur in their contexts. ICIC International © 2025.

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