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Scientific American, 2020
Despite optimistic talk about “collective intelligence,” the Web has helped create an echo chamber where misinformation thrives. Indeed, the viral spread of hoaxes, conspiracy theories, and other false or baseless information online is one of the most disturbing social trends of the early 21st century.
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Despite optimistic talk about “collective intelligence,” the Web has helped create an echo chamber where misinformation thrives. Indeed, the viral spread of hoaxes, conspiracy theories, and other false or baseless information online is one of the most disturbing social trends of the early 21st century.
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Blogs are Echo Chambers: Blogs are Echo Chambers
2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2009In the last decade, blogs have exploded in number, popularity and scope. However, many commentators and researchers speculate that blogs isolate readers in echo chambers, cutting them off from dissenting opinions. Our empirical paper tests this hypothesis.
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2019
Abstract In this chapter, the focus is on the phenomenon of online echo chambers, trying an evaluation from the broad perspective of cultural evolution. It has been noted that individuals associate on social media in communities of like-minded people, where they are repeatedly exposed to the same kind of information and, even more ...
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Abstract In this chapter, the focus is on the phenomenon of online echo chambers, trying an evaluation from the broad perspective of cultural evolution. It has been noted that individuals associate on social media in communities of like-minded people, where they are repeatedly exposed to the same kind of information and, even more ...
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The Yearbook of Comparative Literature, 2019
Abstract This chapter examines the São Paulo Municipal Chamber, focusing on three noise debates in São Paulo, the first two of which involve noise ordinances created in the 1990s, and enforced by the PSIU. The first debate revolves around the Evangelical lawmakers’ attempts to exclude, minimize, or hinder the impact of the noise ...
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Abstract This chapter examines the São Paulo Municipal Chamber, focusing on three noise debates in São Paulo, the first two of which involve noise ordinances created in the 1990s, and enforced by the PSIU. The first debate revolves around the Evangelical lawmakers’ attempts to exclude, minimize, or hinder the impact of the noise ...
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
Do echo chambers actually exist on social media? By focusing on how both Italian and US Facebook users relate to two distinct narratives (involving conspiracy theories and science), we offer quantitative evidence that they do. The explanation involves users’ tendency to promote their favored narratives and hence to form polarized groups.
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Do echo chambers actually exist on social media? By focusing on how both Italian and US Facebook users relate to two distinct narratives (involving conspiracy theories and science), we offer quantitative evidence that they do. The explanation involves users’ tendency to promote their favored narratives and hence to form polarized groups.
Walter Quattrociocchi +2 more
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2020
This chapter, the ‘echo-chamber’ reads Steve McQueen’s and Runa Islam’s moving image installations as a return to the aesthetics of the historical avant-gardes of the 1920s. Both artists’ work draws on cinephilia as they replay and return to film form from the past of cinema and avant-garde practices. This chapter argues that their work synthesizes the
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This chapter, the ‘echo-chamber’ reads Steve McQueen’s and Runa Islam’s moving image installations as a return to the aesthetics of the historical avant-gardes of the 1920s. Both artists’ work draws on cinephilia as they replay and return to film form from the past of cinema and avant-garde practices. This chapter argues that their work synthesizes the
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Beware Bubbles and Echo Chambers
Hastings Center Report, 2014AbstractIt's a bold but frankly risky opening shot for Kaebnick, Gusmano, and Murray to commence their report by claiming that a “majority opinion” or a “near‐consensus” has now been reached on the matter of synthetic biology. Risky because “majority opinions,” even in well‐established controversies, are highly unstable (events will have many ...
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Extreme Beliefs and Echo Chambers
Abstract Are extreme beliefs constitutive of echo chambers, or are they only typically caused by them? Or are many echo chambers unproblematic, amplifying relatively benign beliefs? This chapter details the conceptual relations between echo chambers and extreme beliefs, showing how different conceptual choice points in how both echo ...Malcolm, Finlay, Ranalli, Christopher
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