A critical review of filter bubbles and a comparison with selective exposure

Nordicom Review

Volume 42 (2021): Issue 1 (January 2021)

By:

Peter M. Dahlgren

Open Access

|Jan 2021

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More of the same: The self-reinforcing spiral of how a filter bubble emergesComments: 1) A user actively seeks and chooses supporting information, and 2) the user passively receives supporting information from Internet services that have predicted what the user would want next.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0002 | Journal eISSN: 2001-5119 | Journal ISSN: 1403-1108

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Language: English

Page range: 15 - 33

Published on: Jan 29, 2021

Published by: University of Gothenburg Nordicom

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 2 times per year

Keywords:

selective exposure,

audience fragmentation,

confirmation bias,

personalisation algorithms

Related subjects:

Social sciences,

Communication science,

Mass communication,

Public and political communication

© 2021 Peter M. Dahlgren, published by University of Gothenburg Nordicom
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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