Some of the most interesting Researchers in Europe, that work in the field of "Algorithms", have met on Dec 7, 2017, at the Hans-Bredow-Institut for an interdisciplinary Workshop about "Algorithmic Personalization and News"
Programme
09.15 - 10.00 Introductory session: Welcome and A Look at three interdisciplinary research projects:
1. Personalised Communcation (Natali Helberger/Balazs Bodo, UvA)
2. AlgoDiv (Camille Roth, Sciences Po)
3. Algorithmed Public Spheres (Cornelius Puschmann, HBI)
Chair: Uwe Hasebrink
10.00 - 10.15 Coffee break
10.15 - 12.00 Paper session 1: Concepts, frameworks, theories
1. On the interaction between social and algorithmic curation (Katharina Kleinen v. Königslöw, U of Hamburg)
2. Designing transparency for trust in the context of news personalisation (Max van Drunen, UvA)
3. Algorithmic personalization and news repertoires (Uwe Hasebrink, HBI)
4. Personalised news on grounds of collateral speech? (Re-)Locating data traces in human rights frameworks (Stephan Dreyer/Amélie Pia Heldt, HBI)
5. News consumer control over the data privacy aspects of personalisation (Sarah Eskens, UvA)
Chair: Natali Helberger
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break
13.00 - 14.30 Paper session 2: Empirical approaches and methods
1. Articulating the local and global socioinformational confinement of Twitter users (Jérémie Poiroux/Camille Roth, Sciences Po)
2. Media use as predictors for perceived polarization: Cross-sectional, panel or tracking? (Pascal Jürgens/Birgit Stark/Melanie Magin, U of Mainz)
3. Opportunities and constraints of studying search result diversity with the Datenspende data set (Cornelius Puschmann, HBI)
4. Designing diverse recommenders (Natali Helberger/Judith Moeller, UvA)
Chair: Wolfgang Schulz
14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break
14.45 - 16.15
Parallel breakout session A: Public service and personalization
Chairs: Jan Schmidt/Jannick Sörensen
Parallel breakout session B: Methods for analyzing personalization in search, social media and news platforms
Chair: Cornelius Puschmann
16.15 - 18.00 UvA-HBI workshop (closed) Chair: Bob Bob van der Velde
