Echo chambers on social media: A systematic review of the literature

LTL Terren, RBBR Borge-Bravo - Review of Communication …, 2021 - rcommunicationr.org
There have been growing concerns regarding the potential impact of social media on
democracy and public debate. While some theorists have claimed that ICTs and social …

Echo chamber? What echo chamber? Reviewing the evidence

A Bruns - 6th Biennial Future of Journalism Conference (FOJ17), 2017 - eprints.qut.edu.au
The success of political movements that appear to be immune to any factual evidence that
contradicts their claims–from the Brexiteers to the'alt‐right', neo‐fascist groups supporting …

Echo chambers, filter bubbles, and polarisation: A literature review

This literature review examines social scientific evidence regarding the existence, causes,
and effects of online echo chambers in the context of concerns about digital platforms …

Social media and political partisanship–A subaltern public sphere's role in democracy

PSN Lee, CYK So, F Lee, L Leung, M Chan - Telematics and Informatics, 2018 - Elsevier
Social media, as a subaltern public sphere (Fraser, 1990), have a democratic function in
providing an alternative platform for minorities and marginalized to defy mainstream …

Toward a standard approach for echo chamber detection: Reddit case study

V Morini, L Pollacci, G Rossetti - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Featured Application The framework proposed in this paper could be used to detect echo
chambers in a standard way across multiple online social networks (ie, leveraging features …

The echo chamber is overstated: the moderating effect of political interest and diverse media

E Dubois, G Blank - Information, communication & society, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
In a high-choice media environment, there are fears that individuals will select media and
content that reinforce their existing beliefs and lead to segregation based on interest and/or …

Political discourse on social media: Echo chambers, gatekeepers, and the price of bipartisanship

K Garimella, G De Francisci Morales, A Gionis… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Echo chambers, ie, situations where one is exposed only to opinions that agree with their
own, are an increasing concern for the political discourse in many democratic countries. This …

A survey on echo chambers on social media: Description, detection and mitigation

F Alatawi, L Cheng, A Tahir, M Karami, B Jiang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Echo chambers on social media are a significant problem that can elicit a number of
negative consequences, most recently affecting the response to COVID-19. Echo chambers …

Loopholes in the echo chambers: How the echo chamber metaphor oversimplifies the effects of information gateways on opinion expression

S Geiß, M Magin, P Jürgens, B Stark - Digital Journalism, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Social media (SM) are often regarded drivers of personalized echo chambers in which only
ideas resonante that individuals already hold, leading to more extreme opinions and …

It's not the technology, stupid: How the 'Echo Chamber'and 'Filter Bubble'metaphors have failed us

A Bruns - … Association for Media and Communication Research, 2019 - eprints.qut.edu.au
Following the surprise victories of Brexit and Trump in 2016, even Barack Obama (2017)
warned that “it's become safer to retreat into our own bubbles”, thereby linking increased …