Echo Chambers and Epistemic Bubbles

Nguyen, C. Thi

doi:10.1017/epi.2018.32

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“…Therefore, Simpson regards personalization as an actual threat to objectivity. By leaving out relevant voices, the tailored search results contribute to an epistemic bubble, and the operating logics of search engines combined with the enquirers' ignorance increases the risk of the enquirer being trapped in an epistemic bubble or even an echo chamber (Nguyen, 2018).…”

Section: Knowledge and Information In The Internet Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

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Epistemic Beliefs and Googling

Ståhl

2019

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With the introduction of internet as a source of information, parents have observed youngsters' tendency to prefer internet as a source, and almost a reluctance to learn in advance since "you can look it up when needed". Questions arise, such as 'Are these phenomena symptoms of changing beliefs about knowledge and learning? Is it at all possible to learn on a deeper level simply by looking up the basic facts, without memorizing them?' Within an existing line of investigation, epistemic beliefs have been described as a set of dimensions. Although internet-based information and internet as a source of information have been acknowledged, studies so far have not explored how dealing with internet-based information relates to other epistemic beliefs dimensions. To capture how users view internet-based information per se but also in relation to other epistemic beliefs, I suggest three new dimensions, out of which the most crucial is labelled 'Internet reliance'. Offloading memory using memory aids is not a new phenomenon but the 'Internet reliance' dimension indicates that especially internetreliant users may be confusing external information with personal knowledge, with all the risks it may entail. Besides including beliefs about learning, this study also challenges earlier assumptions regarding uncorrelated dimensions.

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Section: Knowledge and Information In The Internet Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If so, they are at risk of developing an evernarrowing worldview and an epistemology of ignorance resulting from the ranked and filtered results provided by search engines (cf. Bhatt & MacKenzie, 2019;Hinman, 2008, p. 73;Nguyen, 2018).…”

Section: Epistemic Awareness and Educational Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Epistemic Beliefs and Googling

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2019

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“…Nevertheless, the overreliance on fake news and misinformation makes online users more susceptible to taking the 'facts' as given, promoting a reductive understanding of complicated social problems. Furthermore, the amplification of misinformation by algorithms (Bhatt and MacKenzie 2019) and social media's 'echo chambers' (Nguyen 2018) presents historically unprecedented problems. Algorithmic structures, such as those utilized by Facebook and Google, can be designed to sway public opinions through reifying certain beliefs and ideologies while downplaying the relevance of other voices.…”

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The Good, the Bot, and the Ugly: Problematic Information and Critical Media Literacy in the Postdigital Era

Jiang

Vetter

2019

Postdigit Sci Educ

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This paper explores Wikipedia bots and problematic information in order to consider implications for cultivating students' critical media literacy. While we recognize the key role of Wikipedia bots in addressing and reducing problematic information (misinformation and disinformation) on the encyclopedia, it is ultimately reductive to construe bots as merely having benign impacts. In order to understand bots and other algorithms as more than just tools, we turn towards a postdigital theorization of these as 'agents' that coproduce knowledge in conjunction with human editors and actors. This paper presents case studies of three specific bots on Wikipedia, including ClueBot NG, AAlertbot, and COIBot, each of which engages in some type of information validation in the encyclopedia. The activities involving these bots, illustrated in these case studies, ultimately support our argument that information validation processes in Wikipedia are complicated by their distribution across multiple human-computer relations and agencies. Despite the programming of these bots for combating problematic information, their efficacy is challenged by social, cultural, and technical issues related to misogyny, systemic bias, and conflict of interest. Studying the function of Wikipedia bots makes space for extending educational models for critical media literacy. In the postdigital era of problematic information, students should be on the alert for how the human and the nonhuman, the digital and the nondigital, interfere and exert agency in Wikipedia's complex and highly volatile processes of information validation.

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“…He will be caught in the polarization information and tend to be in one community only [14]; [16] or in other words, modernization and globalization have accelerated the process of polarization in religion [17]. This is called the phenomenon of Echo Chambers [14]; [13]; [18]; [19], convergent practice [20] or Homophily [21].…”

Section: Echo Effect Chambers: Exclusivism In Cyberspacementioning

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Exclusivism in Cyberspace: Challenges in Interfaith Communication

Yahya¹,

Fajari²,

Farhah³

2019

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2019 – Humanity, Education and Social Sciences (Ico

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This article tries to see a phenomenon called Echo Chambers through the perspective of Stella Ting-Toomey's Intercultural Communication theory. This study shows that the development of social media was also followed by the shadow of Echo Chambers. The tendency to isolate oneself and associate with those who understand one another will create separate spaces between one religion and another. As a result, communication which is an effort to eliminate the polarization of the differences between "Us" and "The Others" is precisely the way to form exclusivism in cyberspace. Among the efforts to anticipate the emergence of a gap is to create melting-pot spaces in the real world. Counter narrative also needs to be built to open these exclusive barriers. Muslim scholars sought to introduce the importance of communication in achieving the harmony in community. Some Ulama have also explained the role and function of communication in achieving the goals of the muslims, as well as trying to provide an Islamic perspective regarding communication behavior. More importantly, is to create a person who is a wise, open user of social media and uses epoche in looking at the world outside.

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Echo Chambers and Epistemic Bubbles

Cited by 480 publications

References 41 publications

Epistemic Beliefs and Googling

Epistemic Beliefs and Googling

The Good, the Bot, and the Ugly: Problematic Information and Critical Media Literacy in the Postdigital Era

Exclusivism in Cyberspace: Challenges in Interfaith Communication

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