Spreading rumors on the Internet has become increasingly pervasive due to the proliferation of online social media. This paper investigates how rumors are amplified by a group of users who share similar interest
The False Consensus Effect: Inflated Agreement and Reinforcement The false consensus effect refers to overestimating the extent to which others share one’s beliefs and behaviors. This bias reinforces the subjective reality built through perception and conformity, amplifying the echo chamber effect. When...
An echo chamber is a social environment or platform where individuals are exposed to information, opinions, and viewpoints that align with their preexisting beliefs and perspectives exclusively. It’s a place where dissenting voices are muffled or entirely absent and where biases are confirmed rather ...
Echo chamber (EC) is one of the central areas of research in the digital age, spanning several disciplines including psychology, political science, and information science9. Social media has three main features that make it the perfect environment for ECs: no geographical restrictions, no social c...
An echo chamber is an environment that encourages trust among group members and discourages trust in external sources of information or opposing viewpoints.
This study has two broader implications. First, the definition and measurement of being in an echo chamber has so far been overly narrow. This narrowness is a potential challenge for other examinations of political communication theories. Second, single medium studies are not useful to generalize to...
A Citizens’ assembly (CA) is a democratic innovation tool where a randomly selected group of citizens deliberate a topic over multiple rounds to gene
The broader lesson to draw from my discussion is the following: commonly used expressions intended to refer to social-epistemic problems, like "political polarization", possess no univocal definition across theorists, and various ways of making the terms precise are differentially successful in ...
Breaking Free From the Echo Chamber “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.”–Stephen Hawking. Echo chambers are powerfully sustained by the combined influence and interaction of perception, conformity, and the false consensus effect. These forces shape...
Breaking Free From the Echo Chamber “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.”–Stephen Hawking. Echo chambers are powerfully sustained by the combined influence and interaction of perception, conformity, and the false consensus effect. These forces shape...