<nettime> Is anyone immune to the social media echo chamber?

[allan siegel <allan@allansiegel.info>]

FYI

"It's becoming increasingly obvious that as we spend more time communicating via social media, we are disappearing into bubbles. We receive information from the same sources and witness the views of the same people in our personalised newsfeeds every day. But it also seems like living in our bubble is having an effect on our own opinions and how we formulate them."

complete article in Phys.org from The Conversation (AU)

http://phys.org/news/2014-08-immune-social-media-echo-chamber.html

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