If you use the internet, you’ve probably heard of a filter bubble. Internet sites and social media platforms use algorithms that show you content based on your previous interactions, likes, and shares ...
Author Eli Pariser on the way the web's warped lens is keeping us from serendipitous discoveries... No one likes to think of themself as a victim of propaganda - of being fed a diet of information ...
In the wake of November’s election, the concept of the filter bubble is often discussed as if it’s a uniquely American reflection of a left/right that other countries are somehow immune to. Not so. In ...
One afternoon in mid-November, a university journalism professor confided in me a not-so-shocking secret: “I only found out today what ‘Versailles literature’ actually means.” China’s latest buzzword ...