Diversity in News Recommendations
Abstract
News diversity in the media has for a long time been a foundational and uncontested basis for ensuring that the communicative needs of individuals and society at large are met. Today, people increasingly rely on online content and recommender systems to consume information challenging the traditional concept of news diversity. In addition, the very concept of diversity, which differs between disciplines, will need to be re-evaluated requiring a interdisciplinary investigation, which requires a new level of mutual cooperation between computer scientists, social scientists, and legal scholars. Based on the outcome of a multidisciplinary workshop, we have the following recommendations, directed at researchers, funders, legislators, regulators, and the media industry: 1. Do more research on news recommenders and diversity. 2. Create a safe harbor for academic research with industry data. 3. Optimize the role of public values in news recommenders. 4. Create a meaningful governance framework. 5. Fund a joint lab to spearhead the needed interdisciplinary research, boost practical innovation, develop. reference solutions, and transfer insights into practice.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2005.09495,
title = {Diversity in News Recommendations},
author = {Abraham Bernstein and Claes de Vreese and Natali Helberger and Wolfgang Schulz and Katharina Zweig and Christian Baden and Michael A. Beam and Marc P. Hauer and Lucien Heitz and Pascal Jürgens and Christian Katzenbach and Benjamin Kille and Beate Klimkiewicz and Wiebke Loosen and Judith Moeller and Goran Radanovic and Guy Shani and Nava Tintarev and Suzanne Tolmeijer and Wouter van Atteveldt and Sanne Vrijenhoek and Theresa Zueger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.09495},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Published as Manifesto from Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 19482