Program

NORMalize is a half-day workshop scheduled according to local time in Bari (GMT+2). We focus on on-site participation for this session, but we do support hybrid participation for the paper presentations. Here is the program:

09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome & Introduction

09:10 - 09:20 | Disagree-Note #1*

09:20 - 10:05          | Session 1: Data and Frameworks

09:20 - 09:35 | IDEA – Informfully Dataset with Enhanced Attributes
Lucien Heitz, Nicolas Mattis, Oana Inel, and Wouter van Atteveldt

09:35 - 09:50 | From Walls to Windows: Creating Transparency to Understand Filter Bubbles in Social Media
Luka Bekavac, Kimberly Garcia, Jannis Strecker, Simon Mayer, and Aurelia Tamo-Larrieux

09:50 - 10:05 | Generating Diverse Synthetic Datasets for Evaluation of Real-life Recommender Systems
Miha Malenšek, Blaž Škrlj, Blaž Mramor, and Jure Demšar

10:05 - 10:15 | Group Discussion on Papers

10:15 - 10:30 | Disagree-Note #2*

10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:10 | Disagree-Note #3*

11:10 - 11:55         | Session 2: Policy and Values

11:10 - 11:25 | Diversifying for Democracy: On the Framing of Diversity in the NRS Design and the Normative Consequences for Journalism
Jannie Møller Hartley and Elisabetta Petrucchi

11:25 - 11:40 | Navigating the Digital Services Act: Scenarios of transparency and user control in VLOPs’ recommender systems
Urbano Reviglio and Matteo Fabbri

11:40 - 11:55 | Value Identification in Multistakeholder Recommender Systems for Humanities and Historical Research: The Case of the Digital Archive Monasterium.net
Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, Bernhard Geiger, Georg Vogeler, and Dominik Kowald

11:55 - 12:05 | Group Discussion on Papers

12:05 - 12:15 | Disagree-Note #4*

12:15 - 12:30 | Closing

*This keynote alternative aims to ignite meaningful discussions by challenging conventional perspectives with thought-provoking normative statements, fostering a dynamic and engaging exchange of ideas among participants. These may be statements with which some participants might disagree.