Publications
On the same page? Experts are mostly, but not always aligned about disinformation in times of generative AI
Research note in Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
Teresa Weikmann, Ferre Wouters, Marina Tulin, Michael Hameleers, Claes de Vreese, Brahim Zarouali, Michaël Opgenhaffen
2026
Guidance over guidelines? Unpacking the uses and concerns of generative AI in Communication Science
OSF preprint
Justin Chun-ting Ho, Hannes Cools, Joanna Strycharz, Anne Marthe Möller, Zeph M. C. van Berlo, Sjoerd Stolwijk, Damian Trilling, Theo Araujo
2026
Clouded Judgments: Problematizing Cloud Infrastructures for News Media Companies
SSRN preprint
Agustin Ferrari Braun, Corinne Cath
2026
Taming AI: how AI courses for journalists shape the global appropriation of AI
Information, Communication & Society
Anna Schjøtt Hansen, Nadja Schaetz
2026
The Evolving Role of Journalists as Gatekeepers in the Age of (Generative) Artificial Intelligence
Chapter in The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Journalism
Hannes Cools
2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) in journalism: negative and positive implications
Chapter in News media, pluralism and journalism in the digital age (European Audiovisual Observatory report)
Theresa Josephine Seipp
2025
Beyond Credibility: The Effects of Different Forms of Visual Disinformation
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Teresa Weikmann, Jana Laura Egelhofer, Sophie Lecheler
2025
Understanding AI Disclosure Needs for News Production and Journalism
MUM ’25: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
Kartikheya Puttur Venkatraj, Sophie Morosoli, Hannes Cools, Laurens Naudts, Claes de Vreese, Natali Helberger, Pablo Cesar, Abdallah El Ali
2025
What is Data? A Conceptual and Empirical Inquiry of the Facets of Data in News Organizations
OSF preprint
Juliane A. Lischka,
Anne Mollen,
Lisa Merete Kristensen,
Jessica Kunert,
Agustin Ferrari Braun,
Paul K. Koitie,
Torbjörn Rolandsson,
Nadja Schaetz,
Aske Kammer
2025
Breaking the News? Generative AI’s Impact on Journalism and Its Implications for Disinformation
International Journal of Communication (Special section)
Nicolas Mattis, Claes de Vreese
2025
Generative AI and Disinformation: Introduction
International Journal of Communication (Special section)
Aqsa Farooq, Claes de Vreese
2025
Safeguarding Media Freedom in the Age of Big Tech Platforms and AI
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (Handbook)
Natali Helberger, Max van Drunen (co-authors)
2025
Reality Re-Imag(in)ed. Mapping Publics’ Perceptions and Evaluations of AI-Generated Images in News Contexts
Digital Journalism
Edina Strikovic, Hannes Cools
2025
Informing AI Risk Assessment with News Media: Analyzing National and Political Variation in the Coverage of AI Risks
Proceedings of the Eighth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
Mowafak Allaham, Kimon Kieslich, Nicholas Diakopoulos
2025
Scenarios in Computing Research: A Systematic Review of the Use of Scenario Methods for Exploring the Future of Computing Technologies in Society
Proceedings of the Eighth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
Julia Barnett, Kimon Kieslich, Jasmine Sinchai, Nicholas Diakopoulos
2025
Surprise me! A longitudinal user study on serendipitous interface design in news recommender systems
Proceedings of the 12th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025)
Zilin Lin, Damian Trilling, Stuart Duncan, Kasper Welbers, Susan Vermeer
2025
Navigating the responsible AI landscape: unraveling the principles-to-practices gap of transparency and explainability at the BBC
Information, Communication & Society
Hannes Cools
2025
How public datasets constrain the development of diversity-aware news recommender systems, and what law could do about it
arXiv preprint
Max van Drunen, Sanne Vrijenhoek
2025
The Press as Platform: Institutional Isomorphism and the Strategic Adoption of Platform Logics
Digital Journalism
James Meese, Theresa Joesphine Seipp
2025
News, With a Twist: Using Contrastive Learning to Improve User Embeddings for Diverse News Recommendations
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics within the 2025 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025)
Zijie Tang, Manel Slokom
2025
Nudges for news recommenders: prominent article positioning increases selection, engagement, and recall of environmental news, but reducing complexity does not
Journal of Communication
Nicolas Mattis, Lucien Heitz, Philipp K Masur, Judith Moeller, Wouter van Atteveldt
2025
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