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FILTER BUBBLES, ECHO CHAMBERS, AND ONLINE NEWS CONSUMPTION

Public opinion quarterly, 2016-01, Vol.80, p.298-320 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © 2016 American Association for Public Opinion Research ;Copyright Oxford Publishing Limited(England) 2016 ;ISSN: 0033-362X ;EISSN: 1537-5331 ;DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfw006 ;CODEN: POPQAE

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  • Title:
    FILTER BUBBLES, ECHO CHAMBERS, AND ONLINE NEWS CONSUMPTION
  • Author: FLAXMAN, SETH ; GOEL, SHARAD ; RAO, JUSTIN M.
  • Subjects: Consumption ; Electronic publishing ; Ideology ; Intellectuals ; Internet ; News media ; Search engines ; Segregation ; Social networks ; Studies ; Technological change ; United States
  • Is Part Of: Public opinion quarterly, 2016-01, Vol.80, p.298-320
  • Description: Online publishing, social networks, and web search have dramatically lowered the costs of producing, distributing, and discovering news articles. Some scholars argue that such technological changes increase exposure to diverse perspectives, while others worry that they increase ideological segregation. We address the issue by examining webbrowsing histories for 50,000 US-located users who regularly read online news. We find that social networks and search engines are associated with an increase in the mean ideological distance between individuals. However, somewhat counterintuitively, these same channels also are associated with an increase in an individual's exposure to material from his or her less preferred side of the political spectrum. Finally, the vast majority of online news consumption is accounted for by individuals simply visiting the home pages of their favorite, typically mainstream, news outlets, tempering the consequences—both positive and negative—of recent technological changes. We thus uncover evidence for both sides of the debate, while also finding that the magnitude of the effects is relatively modest.
  • Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0033-362X
    EISSN: 1537-5331
    DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfw006
    CODEN: POPQAE
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
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