In turn, these bubbles can boost social polarization and extreme political views, and, unfortunately, there is strong evidence that echo chambers exist in social media. The fundamental question we try to answer is: how and can a regulation “break” or reduce the echo chamber effect in social...
Overall, social media discussions of climate change often occur within polarising “echo chambers”, but also within “open forums”, mixed-attitude communities that reduce polarisation and stimulate debate. Our results have implications for public engagement with this important global challenge. Graphical...
Molyneux, LoganMourao, Rachel
It’s like being in an “echo chamber (信息茧房)”– a place where your own ideas keep coming back to you, and you don’t hear any different ones. This isn’t something new, but with everyone on social media (社交媒体), it’s happenin...
“Social media is good for allowing people to reach out to like-minded people,” saidLuis Hestres, an assistant professor specialising in communication at the University of Texas at San Antonio in the US. Report:Twitter fails to bridge gap between climate activists and sceptics ...
The finding helps reveal how likely people are to self-select into partisan “echo chambers” online, long discussed as a basic civic problem exacerbated by social media. But methodologically, the experiment also tackles a basic challenge regarding the study of partisanship a...
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 interests or views, dubbed as an echo chamber. To this end, we identify and analyze ‘rumor...
echo chambersDo echo chambers actually exist on social media? By focusing on how both Italian and US Facebook users relate to two distinct narratives (involving conspiracy tdoi:10.2139/ssrn.2795110Walter QuattrociocchiAntonio ScalaCass R. Sunstein...
We explore the key differences between the main social media platforms and how they are likely to influence information spreading and the formation of echo chambers. To assess the different dynamics, we perform a comparative analysis on more than 100 million pieces of content concerning controversial...
echo chambers and also for depolarizing existing echo chambers. Due to the simple and robust nature of the RDN, social media networks might be able to implement a version of this self-feedback mechanism, when appropriate, to prevent the segregation of online communities on complex social issues....