Interview with Science Notes

11 May 2026 2 min read News
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Sophie Straetemans interviewed me for Science Notes (in German). The interview is part of the article collection entitled Greatest Hits.

As so often ;-), I talk about the work on gender fairness in music recommender systems with Andrés Ferraro and Andrés Ferraro and Michael Ekstrand: We talk about what ‘fairness’ means in music recommendation and how algorithms steer which artists get heard and which stay invisible on digital music platforms.

In this interview, I also go beyond and highlight that fairness can mean different things to artists, listeners, and streaming platforms.

Playlist accompanying the article

It is also pretty cool to see that the editor team came up with a Spotify playlist accompanying this article

Video introduction to the article by Sophie Straetemans (Science Notes) on Instagram



Andres Ferraro, Michael D. Ekstrand, Christine Bauer (2024). It's not you, it's me: the impact of choice models and ranking strategies on gender imbalance in music recommendation. 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024).

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Andres Ferraro, Xavier Serra, Christine Bauer (2021). Break the loop: gender imbalance in music recommenders. 6th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2021).

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Music Recommender Systems Fairness Gender Gender Bias Communication to the Public