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Recommender systems and their ethical challenges
This article presents the first, systematic analysis of the ethical challenges posed by recommender systems through a literature review. The article identifies six areas of concern, and maps them onto a proposed taxonomy of different kinds of ethical impact. The analysis uncovers a gap in the literature: currently user-centred approaches do not consider the interests of a variety of other stakeholders—as opposed to just the receivers of a recommendation—in assessing the ethical impacts of a recommender system
Beyond Optimizing for Clicks: Incorporating Editorial Values in News Recommendation
With the uptake of algorithmic personalization in the news domain, news
organizations increasingly trust automated systems with previously considered
editorial responsibilities, e.g., prioritizing news to readers. In this paper
we study an automated news recommender system in the context of a news
organization's editorial values. We conduct and present two online studies with
a news recommender system, which span one and a half months and involve over
1,200 users. In our first study we explore how our news recommender steers
reading behavior in the context of editorial values such as serendipity,
dynamism, diversity, and coverage. Next, we present an intervention study where
we extend our news recommender to steer our readers to more dynamic reading
behavior. We find that (i) our recommender system yields more diverse reading
behavior and yields a higher coverage of articles compared to non-personalized
editorial rankings, and (ii) we can successfully incorporate dynamism in our
recommender system as a re-ranking method, effectively steering our readers to
more dynamic articles without hurting our recommender system's accuracy.Comment: To appear in UMAP 202
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