aceCurriculum–Skill Gap in the AI Era: Assessing Alignment in Communication-Related Programs
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping skill expectations across media, marketing, and journalism, however, university curricula are not evolving at a comparable speed. To quantify the resulting curriculum–skill gap in communication-related programs, two synchronous corpora were assembled for the period July 2024–June 2025: 66 course descriptions from six leading UK universities and 107 graduate-to-mid-level job advertisements in communications, digital media, advertising, and public relations. Alignment a…
Communication-related university curricula emphasize conceptual-critical AI ethics, power and governance, while employer ads prioritize operational SEO, multichannel analytics and campaign performance, leaving environmental and social externalities of AI absent from hiring discourse.
Findings are bounded by a UK-only sample of six universities and 107 job ads from a single year, limiting generalizability beyond communication-related programs in that period.
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- Peer-reviewedJournalism and Media2025-10-06
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-1203, v1: “Curriculum–Skill Gap in the AI Era: Assessing Alignment in Communication-Related Programs.” Truvace, 2026-09-27. /record/TRV-2026-1203 (accessed at citation time). sha256 908ac98ba6df09c6…
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