Tag: Filter Bubble
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Activists caught in the Filter Bubble
How personalization helps activists find each other while losing society Also published at Alternet. Eli Pariser’s new book The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You is a must-read for pretty much anyone who uses the Internet. Eli breaks down troubling trends emerging in the World Wide Web that threaten not only individual…
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“Preaching to the choir” on Google N-gram viewer
I learned about Google’s N-gram viewer from reading Eli Pariser’s new book The Filter Bubble (in stores and online as of TODAY — Order it!). The tool queries a “database spanning the entire contents of over five hundred years’ worth of books — 5.2 million books in total… [Pariser]” So you can see how often…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker 