Conferences

Natali Helberger was one of the keynote speakers during the ACM Conference Series on Recommender Systems (RecSys) 2021, where she delivered a keynote on Regulating Recommenders. Recommenders are the power engines of the digital society. They order and unlock information online, manage our attention, make and break businesses and control the constant flow of information …

Keynote by Natali Helberger on Regulating Recommenders at RecSys 2021 Read More »

This is the recording of AI4Media’s workshop on “European AI Vision & Policy – The Future of European AI regulation” that took place on September 14th, 2021. The objective of the workshop was to present the recent research advances achieved in the AI4Media project on this domain, allowing a better understanding of the legal, political …

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One of the biggest developments in the media landscape in recent years is the use of data. Consumer data is widely traded between media and advertisers. But due to the abolition of third-party cookies, this is changing. The media industry is looking for new ways to collect data without violating consumer privacy. In the Cross …

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The annual Summer Institute in Computational Social Science is taking place from 14-25 June at the University of Maastricht. The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and beginning faculty interested in computational social science, focusing on legal data, both from the perspective of collection as well as analysis. …

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The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) Conference will take place from 9-11 June. ICDS team member Jef Ausloos will give several presentations on his research. On June 9, he will talk about how data rights and transparency rules can play an important role in enabling research into online platforms. The following …

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Natali Helberger was one of the panelists of the panel ‘Platform Liability Rules as Technology Policy Levers’, together with Pam Samuelson, Eric Goldman, Tejas Narechania and Olivier Sylvain, during the 25th annual BTLJ-BCLT Symposium, from the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. The recording of this panel is now available here. Other event recordings are …

25th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Symposium | Lex Informatica: The Formulation of Information Policy Rules through Technology with Natali Helberger Read More »

The PriTech Workshop ‘Pricing Technologies and their Economic and Social Consequences’ took place from 25-26 March, 2021. Panelist Natali Helberger explored the use of software agents to price discriminate and target consumers with personalised communications – social perceptions of such practices, their impact on markets and society and the applicable legal frameworks. Helberger’s presentation ‘Profiling, …

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The PERITIA Conference ‘Trust in Expertise in a Changing Media Landscape’ took place on 18 & 19 March, 2021. This multidisciplinary conference brought together outstanding researchers from all over the world to discuss how best to assess, establish and maintain the credibility and trustworthiness of expertise in a rapidly changing media environment. Scholars presented their latest findings on questions …

Keynote speaker Natali Helberger at the PERITIA Conference ‘Trust in Expertise in a Changing Media Landscape’ Read More »

Tom gave a lunch lecture at the Kiesraad, the Dutch electoral council. He spoke about political microtargeting, disinformation, and presented ICDS’s online ad dashboard. During the presentation Tom showed how Forum voor Democratie is by far the most active advertiser, that the more leftist parties (except for SP) target more women while the more rightist …

Tom Dobber presented the political dashboard at the Kiesraad Read More »