Tomás Dodds

Biography

Tomás Dodds is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research examines the evolving relationship between journalism and technology, focusing on how media organizations develop open-source tools and artificial intelligence systems that serve the public interest.

His book, Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination, co-authored with Seth Lewis and Rodrigo Zamith, is forthcoming from Polity in 2026.

Tomás is the founding Director of the Public Tech Media Lab. With over 80 members from industry and academia, the Lab serves as a collaborative sandbox for journalists, technologists, and interdisciplinary scholars to collectively explore, address, and anticipate the ethical implications of emerging technologies.