filter bubble – Jonathan Matthew Smucker

Communicative Capitalism, Status Update Psychology, and Filter Bubbles

Have you ever taken photos at an event — with the thought that you would later post them to Facebook? Maybe you even loaded them from your smartphone while the event was still in progress? Have you ever Tweeted from a protest? Have you ever found yourself thinking about how you would translate something you…

Jonathan Matthew Smucker

September 4, 2012

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communicative capitalism, Eli Pariser, filter bubble, Internet, Jodi Dean, narcissism, self-selection, social media

Activists in Google’s N-gram viewer

I learned about Google’s N-gram viewer from reading Eli Pariser’s book The Filter Bubble. 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 different phrases have been used in print, over many years. I…

Jonathan Matthew Smucker

August 27, 2012

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activism, filter bubble, inoculation, N-gram viewer, self-selection