08 Jul 11
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Originally posted by FMFOtherwise known as "filter bubbles", yes?
Which regular posters here might have succumbed to "Invisible Auto-Propaganda"? Are there any posters who recognize it happening to themselves?
Here's an interesting recent (Feb, 2011) presentation on the subject by Eli Pariser.
As to your question, I think we must all be effected to some degree. It would be difficult to tell, and I do try to get my news from sources with varying viewpoints partly because of this.
08 Jul 11
Originally posted by Sleepyguyhttp://tinyurl.com/5vk8p7h
Otherwise known as "filter bubbles", yes?
...“My sense of unease crystallised when I noticed that my conservative friends had disappeared from my Facebook page,” Mr Pariser writes. The result is a “filter bubble”, which he defines as “a unique universe of information for each of us”, meaning that we are less likely to encounter information online that challenges our existing views or sparks serendipitous connections. “A world constructed from the familiar is a world in which there’s nothing to learn,” Mr Pariser declares. He calls this “invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas”...
08 Jul 11
Originally posted by FMFThere ya go. Same guy. That link probably would have helped in the OP 🙂
http://tinyurl.com/5vk8p7h
...“My sense of unease crystallised when I noticed that my conservative friends had disappeared from my Facebook page,” Mr Pariser writes. The result is a “filter bubble”, which he defines as “a unique universe of information for each of us”, meaning that we are less likely to encounter information online that challenges our existin ...[text shortened]... iser declares. He calls this “invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas”...
08 Jul 11
Originally posted by FMFThat's one of the main reasons I continue to haunt this debate forum. Better to read opposing views than just nod my head at those telling me what they think I want to hear. Whenever I'm in the car it's Air America I listen to (instead of Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or whoever).
I was brought up to seek out and read stuff I disagreed with.
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08 Jul 11
Originally posted by FMFEven if we aren't doing it ourselves, some bot is doing it for us, using our patterns of behavior. So it's all of us that have succumbed, and all of us should know it.
Which regular posters here might have succumbed to "Invisible Auto-Propaganda"? Are there any posters who recognize it happening to themselves?