Are filter bubbles real? [electronic resource] / Axel Bruns.

Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2019.©2019

Bruns, Axel, 1970- author.

ProQuest (Firm) issuing body.

01-01-2019

1 online resource (95 pages)

text

online resource

Digital futures series

Digital futures series (Cambridge (England))

E-BOOK (Copy 1) EBL 1252968-1001 ONLINE

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Social media

Media bias

Public opinion

Populism

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Filter bubbles (Information filtering).

Information society -- Political aspects.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781509536467

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 political disruptions, obscure far more serious issues pertaining to the rise of populism and hyperpolarisation in democracies. Evaluating the evidence for and against echo chambers and filter bubbles, Bruns offers a persuasive argument for why we should shift our focus to more important problems.

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1252968-1001

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