Publications

Public accountability and regulatory expectations for AI in journalism: qualitative evidence from focus groups with Dutch citizens
AI & Society

Sophie Morosoli, Laurens Naudts, Hannes Cools, Karthikeya Venkatraj, Natali Helberger, Claes de Vreese

2025


Envisioning Stakeholder-Action Pairs to Mitigate Negative Impacts of AI: A Participatory Approach to Inform Policy Making
arXiv preprint

Julia Barnett, Kimon Kieslich, Natali Helberger, Nicholas Diakopoulos
2025


Dangerous Criminals and Beautiful Prostitutes? Investigating Harmful Representations in Dutch Language Models
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Zilin Lin, Gabriela Trogrlic, Claes de Vreese, Natali Helberger
2025


No easy fix to countering AI-generated visual disinformation: The (in)effectiveness of AI-labels, fact-check labels and community notes
OSF preprint

Teresa E. Weikmann, Marina Tulin, Michael Hameleers, Claes de Vreese
2025


Safeguarding media freedom from infrastructural reliance on AI companies: The role of EU law
Telecommunications Policy

Max van Drunen
2025


From Principles to Practices: Towards a Framework for a Diversity Dashboard for News Organizations
OSF preprint

Hannes Cools, Sanne Vrijenhoek
2025


AI governance in the spotlight: an empirical analysis of Dutch political parties’ strategies for the 2023 elections
Journal of Information Technology & Politics

Sophie Morosoli, Kimon Kieslich, Valeria Resendez, Max van Drunen
2025


From Automation to Transformation with AI-Tools: Exploring the Professional Norms and the Perceptions of Responsible AI in a News Organization
Digital Journalism

Hannes Cools, Claes de Vreese
2025


‘Toxic’ memes: A survey of computational perspectives on the detection and explanation of meme toxicities
Online Social Networks and Media

Delfina Martinez Pandiani, Erik Tjong, Kim Sang, Davide Ceolin
2025


Feeling iffy about generative AI: When journalists disclose AI use, trust in news is lower
OSF preprint

Nicolas Mattis, Kimon Kieslich, Claes de Vreese
2025


More Than Justifications: An Analysis of Information Needs in Explanations and Motivations to Disable Personalization
Journalism Studies

Valeria Resendez, Kimon Kieslich, Natali Helberger, and Claes de Vreese
2025


Fairness and Artificial Intelligence
Chapter in The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence

Laurens Naudts and Anton Vedder
2025


Designing algorithms against corruption: a conjoint study on communicative features to encourage intentions for collective action
Journal of Information Technology & Politics

Christopher Starke, Kimon Kieslich, Max Reichert, and Nils Köbis
2025


A nightmare to control: Legal and organizational challenges around the procurement of journalistic AI from external technology providers
The Information Society

Natali Helberger, Stanislaw Piasecki
2025


Advancing a Material and Epistemological Turn in the Study of AI: A Review and New Directions for Journalism Research
Digital Journalism

Anna Schjøtt
2025


How to Diversify any Personalized Recommender?
Advances in Information Retrieval: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval

Manel Slokom, Savvina Daniil, Laura Hollink
2025


On the challenges of studying bias in Recommender Systems: The effect of data characteristics and algorithm configuration
Information Retrieval Research

Savvina Daniil, Manel Slokom, Mirjam Cuper, Cynthia C.S. Liem, Jacco van Ossenbruggen,  Laura Hollink
2025


AI Hype and its Function: An Ethnographic Study of the Local News AI Initiative of the Associated Press
Digital Journalism

Nadja Schaetz, Anna Schjøtt
2025


Between the cracks: Blind spots in regulating media concentration and platform dependence in the EU
Internet Policy Review

Theresa Josephine Seipp, Natali Helberger, Claes de Vreese, Jef Ausloos
2024


Crowdsourced Fact-checking: Does It Actually Work?
Information Processing & Management

David La Barbera, Eddy Maddalena, Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Gianluca Demartini, Davide Ceolin, Damiano Spina, Stefano Mizzaro
2024


Cognitive Biases in Fact-Checking and Their Countermeasures: A Review
Information Processing & Management

Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, David La Barbera, Davide Ceolin, Damiano Spina, Gianluca Demartini, Stefano Mizzaro
2024


The Digital Faces of Oppression and Domination: A Relational and Egalitarian Perspective on the Data-driven Society and its Regulation
Conference Proceeding of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Laurens Naudts
2024


Technological Innovation in the Media Sector: Understanding Current Practices and Unraveling Opportunities
Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Simone Ooms, Pablo Cesar, Abdallah El Ali, Davide Ceolin, Laura Hollink, Manel Slokom, Eric Pauwels, Valentin Robu, and Han La Poutre
2024


My Future with My Chatbot: A Scenario-Driven, User-Centric Approach to Anticipating AI Impacts.
Conference Proceeding of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Kimon Kieslich, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Natali Helberger
2024


Transparent AI Disclosure Obligations: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How
CHI EA ’24: Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Abdallah El Ali, Karthikeya Puttur Venkatraj, Sophie Morosoli, Laurens Naudts, Natali Helberger, Pablo Cesar
2024


Overview of the Netherlands AI, Media and Democracy Lab the News Environment
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Democracy and AI, at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Valentin Robu, Simone Ooms, Abdallah El Ali, Pablo César, Davide Ceolin, Laura Hollink, Eric Pauwels, Han La Poutre
2023


FeelTheNews: Augmenting Affective Perceptions of News Videos with Thermal and Vibrotactile Stimulation
Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Simone Ooms, Minha Lee, Pablo Cesar, Abdallah El Ali
2023


The Amsterdam Paper: Recommendations for the technical finalisation of the regulation of GPAI in the AI Act by the participants of the joint Media & Democracy Lab and Algorithm Watch legal design workshop

Natali Helberger,
Laurens Naudts,
Stanislaw
Piasecki
2023


Anticipating Impacts: Using Large-Scale Scenario Writing to Explore Diverse Implications of Generative AI in the News Environment
arXiv preprint

Kimon Kieslich, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Natali Helberger
2023


Media Concentration Law: Gaps and Promises in the Digital Age
Media and Communication

Theresa Seipp
2023


The Eye of the Beholder Project: Transparent and Actionable AI Pipelines for Information Quality Prediction
ERCIM News 134

Davide Ceolin,
Ji Qi
2023


Ethical Self-Disclosing Voice User Interfaces for Delivery of News
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

Shruti Rao, Valeria Resendez, Abdallah El Ali, Pablo Cesar
2022


On the Democratic Role of News Recommenders
Digital Journalism

Natali Helberger
2019