Essays about: "Filter bubble and Echo chamber"

Found 5 essays containing the words Filter bubble and Echo chamber.

  1. 1. Qualitative experiences of personalization algorithms : The strategies used by university students (to counteract ideological homogeneity) when navigating social media feeds and their experience with personalization algorithms.

    University essay from

    Author : Mathilda Bjernersjö; Alicia Wikdahl; [2020]
    Keywords : Echo chamber; Social media; Filter bubble; Personalisation algorithm;

    Abstract : Purpose – At the beginning of this year the number of social media user worldwide was recorded to be at 3.80 billion and is estimated to keep rising (Kemp, 2020). Along with this connectivity, new concepts have been acknowledged that have caused some controversy. These concepts have been named echo chambers and filter bubbles. READ MORE

  2. 2. Individualizing Without Excluding: Ethical And Technical Challenges : Filter Bubbles and their Effects on Society

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

    Author : Anna Normark; Rebecca Oskarsson; [2018]
    Keywords : filter bubble; echo chamber; individualization; personalization; machine learning; logistic regression;

    Abstract : In December 2009 Google had a press release, in which they stated that they would start individualize their users' search results. This is the year individualization began, according to Eli Pariser, who also coined the expression filter bubble. READ MORE

  3. 3. Inside the echo chamber : A qualitative study on anti-immigration internet media, political polarization and social trust in a fragmented digital landscape

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Britta Söderberg; [2017]
    Keywords : Anti-immigration media; alternative media; social media; filter bubbles; algorithms; media critique; polarization; fragmentation; balkanization; social trust;

    Abstract : “Filter bubble” became one of the most topical words of 2016 and it was even included in the Swedish Language Council's list of new Swedish words that was presented at the end of the year. Referring to algorithmically adapted media bubbles, this phenomenon has particularly been discussed in relation to the UK Brexit referendum and the US election as scholars and journalist argue that the phenomenon, in combination with a fragmented media usage, contribute to a political polarization where each side of the political spectrum is encapsulated in “echo chambers” where opinions and beliefs are repeated like an echo rather than contested and challenged. READ MORE

  4. 4. The Social Network of Changing Your Mind :

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Efeoghene Agadagba; [2016]
    Keywords : Filter bubble and Echo chamber; Gamification; Play-centric design;

    Abstract : We  are increasingly turn to social media for our news consumption two related media phenomenon that influence media consumption are the “Echo chamber” and “Filter Bubble”. Echo chamber this the phenomenon that we tend to have conversation only with those that has the same likeminded as we do while Filter bubble is created by Social media and information retrieval technology that tends to priorities showing us things it already know we like. READ MORE

  5. 5. The influence of the Internet on Identity Creation and Extreme groups

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för teknik och estetik

    Author : Rasmus Emilsson; [2015]
    Keywords : Identity creation; hacktivism; white supremacy; echo chamber; filter bubble.;

    Abstract : In the age of the Internet, extreme groups have seen resurgence in the way they can communicate and recruit through the new medium whether they are white supremacists or hacktivists. Examining the history and modern behaviors of both white supremacy groups and Anonymous, this paper aims to research and answer how the different groups use the Internet to influence identities and if the methods to do so differ from the old ones and through the use of several concepts, mainly the Echo Chamber and the Filter Bubble, narrow down the effects that leads to a person joining an extreme group. READ MORE