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Illustration of gap btw media policy making & media research.
1) Australian Communications Minister suggest "algorithms creating echo chambers and filter bubbles" may require regulatory intervention
2) Researchers repeatedly questioning the echo chamber/filter bubble link
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1) Australian Communications Minister suggest "algorithms creating echo chambers and filter bubbles" may require regulatory intervention
2) Researchers repeatedly questioning the echo chamber/filter bubble link
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1) Australian Communications Minister Mitch Fifield quoted here. (To be clear, am glad policymakers are looking increasingly closely at wider implications of change in our media environment,very much including role of algorithms and platform companies) smh.com.au/politics/feder… 2/4
2) Just a few examples of recent empirical research that tests versions of echo chamber/filter bubble link, find no/little evidence
a) @Sethflaxman et al academic.oup.com/poq/article/80…
b) @dragz and me journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
c) @lizdubois and Grant Blank tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
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a) @Sethflaxman et al academic.oup.com/poq/article/80…
b) @dragz and me journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
c) @lizdubois and Grant Blank tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
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Media policy will of course always be based on many forms of input, but would be good to see strong link btw policy & research. Otherwise, interventions risk unintended effects. We don't want public health policy to disconnected from research-do we want media policy to be so?
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