Second Annual ALGEPI Workshop

On April 23rd, 2025, the Université de Namur hosted the second ALGEPI Annual Workshop, bringing together researchers, students, and industry experts to discuss how AI is shaping the media landscape. The day was packed with presentations on artificial intelligence, algorithmic recommender systems, media regulation, and user-centric innovation.

Some highlights:

• Prof. Heritiana Ranaivoson kicked off the day by outlining the ALGEPI project, which is a collaborative effort aiming to tackle the challenges AI poses to epistemic welfare.

• Dr. Lien Michiels dissected the elusive concept of filter bubbles, stressing the need for diverse, but standardised research methods and validated metrics that consider all stakeholders to gather robust evidence and make meaningful normative judgements about diversity and recommender systems.

• Aina Errando, Michelle Kulig, and Hanne Vandenbroucke shared some findings from their comparative systematic literature review on the multi-stakeholder challenges and opportunities of news recommender systems in newsrooms. Their work highlights the need for more interdisciplinary and multi-method research to address both organisational and societal challenges, and also to explore the opportunities of news recommender systems more holistically.

For the full report on the 2nd ALGEPI workshop, have a look at https://www.algepi.com/ai-innovation-media-regulation-insights-ii-annual-workshop/