We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
“This isn’t brainwashing — people don’t have to internalize this or that aspect of what social media presents to them, radically changing their beliefs and their sense of who they are…The more important change is to our beliefs about what other people think, which we perpetually update based on social observation. When what we observe is filtered through social media, our understandings of the coalitions we belong to, and the coalitions we oppose, what we have in common, and what we disagree on, shift too.” —
Tags:
algorithms,
democracy,
social media
