Are Filter Bubbles Real?

Axel Bruns (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2019
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-3644-3 (ISBN)

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There has been much concern over the impact of partisan echo chambers and filter bubbles on public debate. Is this concern justified, or is it distracting us from more serious issues?

Axel Bruns argues that the influence of echo chambers and filter bubbles has been severely overstated, and results from a broader moral panic about the role of online and social media in society. Our focus on these concepts, and the widespread tendency to blame platforms and their algorithms for political disruptions, obscure far more serious issues pertaining to the rise of populism and hyperpolarisation in democracies. Evaluating the evidence for and against echo chambers and filter bubbles, Bruns offers a persuasive argument for why we should shift our focus to more important problems.

This timely book is essential reading for students and scholars, as well as anyone concerned about challenges to public debate and the democratic process.

Axel Bruns is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology.

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: More than a Buzzword?
2 Echo Chambers? Filter Bubbles? What are They?
3 Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles in Action
4 Bursting the Bubble
5 Conclusion: Polarised but not Disconnected

References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.07.2019
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	119 x 193 mm
Gewicht	249 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-5095-3644-2 / 1509536442
ISBN-13	978-1-5095-3644-3 / 9781509536443
Zustand	Neuware