🚨 New paper 🚨. We conducted a mixed methods study to test whether a position and various interface nudges can facilitate the selection of current affairs news over other genres .

New achievement unlocked: Reviewer complaining that we phrase our results to negatively and should not downplay them as much (context is internal vs external experimental validity and what conclusions can be drawn).

RT @communicationVU: While one half of the Department of Communication Science is in Goldcoast, Australia to attend #ica24, the other half….

Are you working on / interested in news recommendation and democracy? Find my on Sunday at #ica24 where I will be presenting work on.1) Effects of normatively motivated news diversification (Surfer's Paradise 1).2) Nudging news engagement in a 7-day field experiment (Arena 1b)

I am delighted to share that I will be joining @UvA_ASCoR and the @AIMediaDem_Lab as a PostDoc in October to work with Claes and team on GenAI and mis-/disinformation among other things ✨ Now on to some fantastic days at #ica24.

RT @BrittaBrugman: Come and work with us in this exciting PhD project! Study how and what we learn from generative AI🤖 about organizations’….

Great job opportunity with great people!.

Finally, a big thank you to my amazing collaborators @TGrootKormelink @MasurPhil @judith_moeller and @vanatteveldt, the anonymous reviewers and everyone else who helped improve the paper as well as the folks who were kind enough to let me interview them!.

Second, in contrast to the position nudge, interface nudges (see below) only work when they are noticed and appreciated. We find a lot of variation in whether this is the case depending on characteristics of both the nudges and the readers. But they can add value for some.

So what did we learn? First, article position can serve as a powerful nudge. This underscores the importance of reflecting on what editors (and increasingly algorithms) put on top of a news feed / website.

To understand the nudging process in more detail, we then conducted 13 qual. interviews (incl. concurrent think-aloud protocols). Results show that for interface nudges to be effective, they need to be noticed and appreciated. We also find individual variation in nudgeability.

In a repeated measures experiment with N = 580 respondents, we find that prominent article positioning can serve as a powerful nudge. In contrast, interface nudges seem to be much more contingent on whether people notice and appreciate them.

RT @silviamajo: Happy and excited to have received the @_knaw Award 2024 to organize the I Symposium on Diversity of News Media Diets with….

RT @TonivdMeer: New PhD position in Communication Science .@UvA_ASCoR!. @LindaBos80, @Hameleers_M, and I are looking for a PhD candidate fo….

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RT @DrCh0le: In her #IRforGood talk, @alisarieg shares this multiperspective collab meant to encourage reflection on #Responsible #Opinio….

On my way to #Etmaal2024 to present insights from a two-week long field experiment where we nudged readers to engage with and learn from news on the environment. See you there!.

Massive congrats to the new Dr. Draws specifically and to the whole team - led by the brilliant @alisarieg and Tim Draws - for the paper acceptance at #ECIR2024 (I am much more happy about both of these than I look in this picture 😀).

On my way to #DBWRS2023. I'll give a Lightening Talk on nudging users towards news diversity in RS and present a work-in-progress field experiment on the effect of choice architecture design on news selection, engagement and learning. Hope to see you there!.

Lucien Heitz closing an interesting session at #NORMalize #RecSys2023 with a short position paper on how to classify normative recommenders. Important to think through the impact of normative operationalisations at different stages of the recommendation process.