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Polarization, a🧵
30 years ago, the Internet was hailed as creating a globally connected community.
Yet today, we're seeing more attention to how social media are *increasing* polarization.
E.g. @elipariser @JonHaidt and others
#filterbubble
#cyberbalkans
#polarization
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30 years ago, the Internet was hailed as creating a globally connected community.
Yet today, we're seeing more attention to how social media are *increasing* polarization.
E.g. @elipariser @JonHaidt and others
#filterbubble
#cyberbalkans
#polarization
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@elipariser @JonHaidt What’s driving the increased online polarization?
Marshall van Alstyne explore how greater connectivity could great filter bubbles and amplify differences between groups in our 1996 and 2005 papers.
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Marshall van Alstyne explore how greater connectivity could great filter bubbles and amplify differences between groups in our 1996 and 2005 papers.
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@elipariser @JonHaidt In theory, virtual communities let us connect with far more people and ideas.
In practice, our time, attention and mental processing capacity are still limited, so we must limit who we interact with.
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In practice, our time, attention and mental processing capacity are still limited, so we must limit who we interact with.
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