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'''Filter Bubble''' occurs when an algorithm sorts content based on perceived user relevance, isolating the user intellectually by discouraging outside information and facilitating familiarity.
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==Filter Bubble==
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A '''Filter Bubble''' is the isolation/dilution of outside information and/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 a user's relevance. This becomes especially important as some social media-sites that rely on a relevance based algorithm to sort displayed content-transition into news media platforms. 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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==Abstract==
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==Uses==
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===Publication===
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===Social Media as News Media Platforms===
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===Research===
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==Quotes==
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“Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.”
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― Eli Pariser, [https://www.amazon.com/Filter-Bubble-Personalized-Changing-Think/dp/0143121235 The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You]
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More to come. [Kennedy Kaufman]
 
More to come. [Kennedy Kaufman]

Revision as of 19:24, 10 February 2017

Filter Bubble

A Filter Bubble is the isolation/dilution of outside information and/or opposing viewpoints by algorithmic or design purposes. Instead, a homophilous environment is formed around a user. This occurs when an algorithm returns content or queries sorted based on its assumption of a user's relevance. This becomes especially important as some social media-sites that rely on a relevance based algorithm to sort displayed content-transition into news media platforms. 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


More to come. [Kennedy Kaufman]