From Oral Tradition to Digital Media: The Transformation of Sundanese Local Knowledge Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence, digital innovation, Digital CommunicationAbstract
Sundanese local knowledge has long been communicated through oral performances embedded in particular speakers, communities, and social settings. Its movement into writing, print, audiovisual recording, digital platforms, and artificial intelligence has expanded opportunities for documentation, education, and public access while altering how cultural knowledge is selected, interpreted, and authorized. This integrative literature review examines these transformations through scholarship on oral tradition, Sundanese culture, media, digital heritage, and artificial intelligence. The analysis finds that technological accessibility does not necessarily preserve cultural context or community authority. Recent studies of Indonesian natural language processing also show that artificial intelligence can process Sundanese but remains constrained by limited data, linguistic errors, cultural shallowness, and safety risks. The article proposes a community-centered communication model based on contextual integrity, cultural authority, source traceability, meaningful participation, human validation, and equitable benefit-sharing.
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