[ecrea] Call for Submissions - Algorithmic Personalization & News Workshop

*You are cordially invited to submit to the workshop on Algorithmic 
Personalization & News (APEN 18) 
<https://apen18.hans-bredow-institut.de/>to be held
at Stanford University on June 25th this year, in conjunction with the 
International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 18) 
<http://www.icwsm.org/2018/index.php>, a premier conference that brings 
together social scientists and computational methodologists in the study 
of online social media. *More info on the workshop can be found here: 
https://apen18.hans-bredow-institut.de/and on the host conference here: 
http://www.icwsm.org/2018/index.php*

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This workshop is intended to provide a platform to discuss the risks and 
opportunities of algorithmic personalization systems in the online news 
environments, and also to encourage design of auditing mechanisms for 
such news personalization algorithms. Our aim is to foster dialogue 
between the different communities interested in the topic by bringing 
together academics and researchers from the fields of computer science, 
media studies, journalism and communication sciences, as well as 
industry practitioners from mainstream media, social media 
organizations, and startups.

*Main Themes of Discussion for the Workshop*

The workshop program is structured around the two main themes of risks 
and opportunities of algorithmic personalization for news. Some relevant 
topics for each of these themes include (but are not limited to):

*Theme I: Risks*

  * Societal risks of algorithmic personalization in relation to news
  * Auditing mechanisms for personalization in news dissemination and
    consumption pipeline
  * Developing systems for personalizing news while optimizing for other
    factors (e.g. opinion and topic diversity, news value, local
    interest, etc.)


*Theme II: Opportunities*

  * Using personalization for increasing user engagement with current
    affairs or political news
  * Designing personalized recommendations for public service media
  * Leveraging geographic localization, or other user models for
    personalizing news


*Submissions for the Workshop*

We invite interested participants to submit*/work-in-progress or 
position papers of up to 2 pages (excluding references)/*.

The workshop attendees will be invited based on the relevance of their 
submitted abstracts to the workshop’s agenda. The abstracts will be 
judged on their likelihood of sparking lively discussions and debate 
during the workshop, and not necessarily the completeness of the work 
(work-in-progress, as well as, position papers are welcome).

Send in your submissions to/(apen18 /at/ googlegroups.com) 
<mailto:(apen18 /at/ googlegroups.com)>/(single pdf file) before the*/deadline 
of April 30th, 2018 (23:59, anywhere on earth)./*

More information can be found at: https://apen18.hans-bredow-institut.de/



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