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Are Filter Bubbles Real?
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This timely work is essential for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the health of democracy and public discourse.
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Ideal for students, academics, and concerned readers interested in media studies, political science, and the future of democratic debate.
"Axel Bruns argues that the influence of echo chambers and filter bubbles on contemporary public debate has been severely overstated. He evaluates the evidence for and against echo chambers and filter bubbles, and offers a persuasive argument for why we should shift our focus to more important problems"--
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There has been much concern over the impact of partisan echo chambers and filter bubbles on public debate. Is this concern justified, or is it distracting us from more serious issues?
Axel Bruns argues that the influence of echo chambers and filter bubbles has been severely overstated, and results from a broader moral panic about the role of online and social media in society. Our focus on these concepts, and the widespread tendency to blame platforms and their algorithms for political disruptions, obscure far more serious issues pertaining to the rise of populism and hyperpolarisation in democracies. Evaluating the evidence for and against echo chambers and filter bubbles, Bruns offers a persuasive argument for why we should shift our focus to more important problems.
This timely book, Are Filter Bubbles Real? is essential reading for students and scholars, as well as anyone concerned about challenges to public debate and the democratic process.
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Reviewers praise Bruns’s analytical perspective for exposing flaws in common understandings of echo chambers and filter bubbles. William H. Dutton highlights how the book raises more troubling questions about the internet’s political impact. Seth C. Lewis describes it as a much-needed wake-up call that dispels myths and offers smarter ways of thinking about media, politics, and public life.
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ISBN: 9781509536450
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 July 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 125.0mm
Height: 185.0mm
Weight: 181g
Pages: 160
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About the Author
Axel Bruns is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology.
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