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==Filter Bubble==  
 
==Filter Bubble==  
A '''Filter Bubble''' is the isolation/dilution of outside information or opposing viewpoints by algorithmic or design purposes. Instead, a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophily homophilous] environment is formed around a user. This occurs when an algorithm returns content or queries sorted based on its assumption of user relevance. This becomes important as social media--sites that rely on a relevance based algorithm to sort displayed content--acts as a news media platform. As a platform, these sites control the flow of media coverage and political discourse, isolating users in their own cultural or ideological convictions. This became apparent in the [https://www.wsj.com/ Wall Street Journal]'s article titled [http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/ "Red Feed, Blue Feed"].
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A '''Filter Bubble''' is the isolation/dilution of outside information or opposing viewpoints by algorithmic or design purposes. Instead, an ethnocentric environment is formed. This occurs when an algorithm returns content or queries sorted based on its assumption of user relevance. This becomes important as social media--sites that rely on a relevance based algorithm to sort displayed content--acts as a news media platform. As a platform, these sites control the flow of media coverage and political discourse, isolating users in their own cultural or ideological convictions. This became apparent in the [https://www.wsj.com/ Wall Street Journal]'s article titled [http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/ "Red Feed, Blue Feed"].
  
 
==Abstract==
 
==Abstract==

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Filter Bubble

A Filter Bubble is the isolation/dilution of outside information or opposing viewpoints by algorithmic or design purposes. Instead, an ethnocentric environment is formed. This occurs when an algorithm returns content or queries sorted based on its assumption of user relevance. This becomes important as social media--sites that rely on a relevance based algorithm to sort displayed content--acts as a news media platform. As a platform, these sites control the flow of media coverage and political discourse, isolating users in their own cultural or ideological convictions. This became apparent in the Wall Street Journal's article titled "Red Feed, Blue Feed".

Abstract

Uses

Publication

Social Media as News Media Platforms

Research

Quotes

“Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.” ― Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You

References

More to come. [Kennedy Kaufman]