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News Diversity and Recommendation Systems: Setting the Interdisciplinary Scene

Authors : Glen Joris, Camiel Colruyt, Judith Vermeulen, Stefaan Vercoutere, Frederik De Grove, Kristin Van Damme, Orphée De Clercq, Cynthia Van Hee, Lieven De Marez, Veronique Hoste, Eva Lievens, Toon De Pessemier, Luc Martens

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Concerns about selective exposure and filter bubbles in the digital news environment trigger questions regarding how news recommender systems can become more citizen-oriented and facilitate – rather than limit – normative aims of journalism. Accordingly, this chapter presents building blocks for the construction of such a news algorithm as they are being developed by the Ghent University interdisciplinary research project #NewsDNA, of which the primary aim is to actually build, evaluate and test a diversity-enhancing news recommender. As such, the deployment of artificial intelligence could support the media in providing people with information and stimulating public debate, rather than undermine their role in that respect. To do so, it combines insights from computer sciences (news recommender systems), law (right to receive information), communication sciences (conceptualisations of news diversity), and computational linguistics (automated content extraction from text). To gather feedback from scholars of different backgrounds, this research has been presented and discussed during the 2019 IFIP summer school workshop on ‘co-designing a personalised news diversity algorithmic model based on news consumers’ agency and fine-grained content modelling’. This contribution also reflects the results of that dialogue.

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Title: News Diversity and Recommendation Systems: Setting the Interdisciplinary Scene
Authors: Glen Joris
Camiel Colruyt
Judith Vermeulen
Stefaan Vercoutere
Frederik De Grove
Kristin Van Damme
Orphée De Clercq
Cynthia Van Hee
Lieven De Marez
Veronique Hoste
Eva Lievens
Toon De Pessemier
Luc Martens
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Privacy and Identity Management. Data for Better Living: AI and Privacy
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-42503-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-42504-3

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42504-3_7

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