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Itse · 12-14-2011, 07:14 PM

I think the only real difference that the increased amount of media has caused is that people can now live almost entirely in a news bubble where all their input of the world is filtered through a certain world view. These days a lot of people only read news their social media shows for example.

As the search engines and social media filters are growing "smarter" this effect is only getting stronger. Everything we see is increasingly "designed" to strengthen our pre-existing views. (There's a good TED talk about the "filter bubble": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s)

EDIT:
Funnily enough, places like CP, where people gather (virtually) for reasons mostly unrelated to their other interests or beliefs are in my eyes becoming the better places for discussion in the internet, simply because the "bubble" effect doesn't work as strongly here.

(Of course, some people also only have hobbies that are dominated with like-minded people.)

12-14-2011, 07:14 PM	#44
Itse Franchise Player Join Date: May 2004 Location: Helsinki, Finland Exp:	I think the only real difference that the increased amount of media has caused is that people can now live almost entirely in a news bubble where all their input of the world is filtered through a certain world view. These days a lot of people only read news their social media shows for example. As the search engines and social media filters are growing "smarter" this effect is only getting stronger. Everything we see is increasingly "designed" to strengthen our pre-existing views. (There's a good TED talk about the "filter bubble": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s) EDIT: Funnily enough, places like CP, where people gather (virtually) for reasons mostly unrelated to their other interests or beliefs are in my eyes becoming the better places for discussion in the internet, simply because the "bubble" effect doesn't work as strongly here. (Of course, some people also only have hobbies that are dominated with like-minded people.) Last edited by Itse; 12-14-2011 at 07:19 PM.