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Articles tagged Filter Bubbles (12)

Joshua BentonJuly 14, 2021

I have come to bury Knewz, not to praise it

News Corp’s painfully named news aggregator promised to somehow battle “crass clickbait,” filter bubbles, media bias, and two trillion-dollar companies, all at once. It ended up being a D-minus Drudge clone and OnlyFans blog.

Laura Hazard OwenJuly 17, 2020

Republicans and Democrats read a lot of the same news. What they do with it is a different question.

Plus what happens when climate facts get treated as climate opinions.

Laura Hazard OwenDecember 7, 2018

Few people are actually trapped in filter bubbles. Why do they like to say that they are?

Plus: Are your Google results really that different from your neighbor’s?

Laura Hazard OwenAugust 30, 2018

Republicans who follow liberal Twitter bots actually become more conservative

“Instead of reducing political polarization, our intervention increased it.”

Nancy WatzmanJune 8, 2018

How can we restore trust in news? Here are 9 takeaways from Knight-supported research

“Finding strategies for artfully conveying complex information in ways that break down attention and trust-based barriers represents the most important challenge in our politically tumultuous time.”

Rasmus Kleis NielsenMay 24, 2018

Media change deniers: Why debates around news need a better evidence base — and how we can get one

“If we let media change deniers drive the conversation, the result will be dumber journalism, less-informed public debate, and ineffective and counterproductive public policy. Even if what they say sometimes ‘feels right.'”

Denise-Marie OrdwayApril 17, 2018

Fact-checking the network: The most interesting digital and social media research of early 2018

Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here’s their latest roundup, including research into fake news, audience analytics, populism, VR, and fact-checking.

Ricardo BiltonApril 3, 2017

Filterbubblan is a Swedish effort to give a side-by-side, real-time glance at the country’s filter bubbles

“Very quickly, you learn the worldviews in all these bubbles are very different.”

Ricardo BiltonMarch 9, 2017

A news app aims to burst filter bubbles by nudging readers toward a more “balanced” media diet

Read Across the Aisle is taking the Fitbit approach to popping filter bubbles.

John WihbeyJuly 29, 2013

What’s New in Digital Scholarship: Tracking SOPA, when filter bubbles aren’t bubbles, and the uses of incivility

The impact of paywalls, seeing a city through Instagram, and old vs. new media in the Arab Spring: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

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