Fighting Biased Online News: Lessons from Online Participation and Crowdsourcing

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-37545-4_14" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-37545-4_14</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37545-4_14" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-37545-4_14</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Fighting Biased Online News: Lessons from Online Participation and Crowdsourcing

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Online news has become a major source of news especially for younger generation. However, it is evident that certain media outlets report biased news. This bias can cause harmful effects on society thus democracy. There have been various attempts to identify and mitigate bias in news. At the same time various successful crowdsourcing platforms have emerged as many internet users are now active participants than passive readers. Some of these techniques have been already used related to online news sector. In this article we investigate how online participation techniques have been used in crowdsourcing and how lessons from crowdsourcing platforms can be used further to fight against biased news. New means to mitigate biased online news are proposed and discussed in the end.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Fighting Biased Online News: Lessons from Online Participation and Crowdsourcing

Popis výsledku anglicky

Online news has become a major source of news especially for younger generation. However, it is evident that certain media outlets report biased news. This bias can cause harmful effects on society thus democracy. There have been various attempts to identify and mitigate bias in news. At the same time various successful crowdsourcing platforms have emerged as many internet users are now active participants than passive readers. Some of these techniques have been already used related to online news sector. In this article we investigate how online participation techniques have been used in crowdsourcing and how lessons from crowdsourcing platforms can be used further to fight against biased news. New means to mitigate biased online news are proposed and discussed in the end.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název statě ve sborníku

8th e-Democracy International Conference on Safeguarding Democracy and Human Rights in the Digital Age, e-Democracy 2019

ISBN

978-3-030-37545-4

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

209-220

Název nakladatele

Springer, Cham

Místo vydání

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Místo konání akce

Athens, Greece

Datum konání akce

12. 12. 2019

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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