Between Benefits and Threats of Algorithmic News Personalization

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/2063/188188226" target="_blank" >https://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/2063/188188226</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Between Benefits and Threats of Algorithmic News Personalization

Original language description

The paper presents a study on how Czech news consumers adapted to the personalization of news. Our study is the first one that tries to deepen the existing knowledge about Czech internet users’ reflections of the algorithmic news contents’ personalization. The goal of the research was to gain insight into consumers' perceptions of news personalization and to identify the needs and competencies they require to protect their personal data. The research is based on three focus groups consisting of 27 participants, two of which were ordinary users from the Czech Republic, and one consisting of experts from the same country. The qualitative analysis reveals that respondents see news personalization as a loss of control over search mechanisms and information delivery. They express doubts about the credibility of personalization and describe the respective algorithms as a ,black box.' The study outlines defensive tactics used by users to resist personalization algorithms, and the data indicates that readers view the process of algorithmic news personalization as a threat to the management of their personal data.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

<a href="/en/project/TL03000152" target="_blank" >TL03000152: Artificial Intelligence, Media and Law</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Observatorio

ISSN

1646-5954

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PT - PORTUGAL

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

1-18

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85152098958