Questions?
People are choosing ____________and living in echo chambers leading to polarization and “unjustified extremism.”
The most information-savvy seek out information.
Fewer of these (5%) than used to be.
on Zuckerberg’s squirrel
My complaint about Eli Pariser’s type of thinking is it’s totally unempirical. –Jacob Weisberg
Let’s each search Google News for “Fox News”
What’s your neighbors’ screens show?
We are forced into “reputation silos”/buckets (The Daily You).
e.g., Target’s targeting pregnant women by noticing unscented lotions and supplements.
Did Target Really Predict a Teen’s Pregnancy??
A few months after Pole’s presentation, [NYT] reporter Charles Duhigg interviewed me… he asked for interesting discoveries … I rattled off a few and included pregnancy prediction, pointing him to the online video of Pole’s talk … and introducing him to Pole… One year later… Duhigg published a front-page … article, sparking a viral outbreak that turned the Target pregnancy prediction story into a debacle. — Eric Siegel
People want homophily but the Web forces heterophily enraging them and degrading the discourse.
(Confronting people of different opinions also leads to polarization.)
Using the transcript from The Echo Chamber Revisited differentiate:
Do you think their debate changed anyone’s mind?
Possible venues: