There has been much concern over the impact of partisan echo chambers and filter bubbles on public debate. Is this concern justified, or is it distracting us from more serious issues?
Axel Bruns argues that the influence of echo chambers and filter bubbles has been severely overstated, and results from a broader moral panic about the role of online and social media in society. Our focus on these concepts, and the widespread tendency to blame platforms and their algorithms for pol...
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Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: More than a Buzzword?
2 Echo Chambers? Filter Bubbles? What are They?
3 Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles in Action
4 Bursting th...
About the author
Axel Bruns is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology.
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