Regular reminder that many assumptions treated as fact in elite debate on today& #39;s media are directly contradicted by evidence in some great peer reviewed academic research
Echo chambers? Not so much
Filter bubbles? Not really
Fragmentation? Nah
Screen-time a problem? Not clear https://twitter.com/andyguess/status/1283516615729065987">https://twitter.com/andyguess...
Echo chambers? Not so much
Filter bubbles? Not really
Fragmentation? Nah
Screen-time a problem? Not clear https://twitter.com/andyguess/status/1283516615729065987">https://twitter.com/andyguess...
On echo chambers, in addition to the important paper above from @andyguess, see e.g. @lizdubois and Grant Blank here https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1428656">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
On filter bubbles, see e.g. @dragz and I here https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444817724170">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1... and @flaxter et al here https://academic.oup.com/poq/article-abstract/80/S1/298/2223402">https://academic.oup.com/poq/artic...
Fragmentation, then? Again, how about @dragz and I https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-abstract/67/4/476/4642154">https://academic.oup.com/joc/artic... or pioneering work by Jim Webster including this study with Thomas Ksiazek https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-abstract/62/1/39/4085792">https://academic.oup.com/joc/artic...
Screen time as a problem? Read @OrbenAmy and @ShuhBillSkee https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0506-1?fbclid=IwAR1lIDoLwZ_932NKLOYn07IrwI23kPw6h0WPROZh11JP6PukPaIKH0L7Urs">https://www.nature.com/articles/... or years of work by @Livingstone_S and others.