Sentences with phrase «like echo chambers»

Inside jail there is a nonstop barrage of buzzing metal doors, people yelling, daily announcements over loud speakers and CO's shouting out updates — all of it bouncing off concrete walls and down long hallways that are like echo chambers.

He has fans who tweet praise at him, and his feed can feel like an echo chamber of anonymous tweeters predicting financial doom.

This comment section is like an echo chamber.

The small area where dogs are kept is like an echo chamber, prompting a sign on the door that warns visitors of the loud noise that awaits them.

It may seem like an echo chamber, but that is just because your ears are ringing from the believer echo chambers you have dwelt in most of the time.

Not exact matches

The answer, I think, is that like all things online, Facebook is at the centre of its own negativity echo chamber.

Because when you're sitting in a start - up incubator or a shared tech workspace killing it with your team, and you're all surrounded by other smart, young techies who eat javascript for breakfast, it's a lot like living in an echo chamber lined with mirrors.

There's a potential echo chamber there, too, that goes something like this: Relatives want to be heard.

We can be angry for bad reasons; we can be angry in an echo chamber, as it sounds like he was; but rectifying societal injustices requires us, sometimes, to use our anger in places where love may not be wholly adequate.

This place, like practically everywhere on the internet, does have a tendency to drift towards being an echo - chamber.

If I'm honest, outside the deep sadness I've felt this month at missing my first son, and staring at second wondering how we got so lucky at the same time — I feel like I'm increasingly talking to no one, echoing in the chamber of Baby Loss parents, and not sure what good it's all doing.

Or are women like you and me, who happen to have a platform and audience, perpetuating an echo chamber concerning Badinter's book and all the others very much like it as we discuss and discuss?

Preaching to the choir and echo chambers like this one where you all +1 each other don't count as a tactic of «getting the message out in a productive and honest way.»

In response, progressive activists such as my friend Alan Rosenblatt actively began to try to create an echo - chamber effect on the Left, in part through the use of hashtags like «#p2» to counter the Republican «#tcot» («Top Conservatives On Twitter»).

UPDATED: One, items like the one I'm writing is clearly what Lazio is going for - he has almost no money for paid media and is trying to tap into the GOP base in advance of his primary against Carl Paladino, and the echo chamber isn't a bad way to do that.

«For the friend collector, Facebook is just an echo chamber where they're choosing to engage with like - minded people and having those opinions reinforced,» Miller said.

Greenpeace portrays the company's efforts as a secret campaign to keep climate doubts pinging around an «echo chamber» that includes groups like the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute.

Yelling into echo chambers, like narrow - cast web sites and cable TV, about issues such as gun control, instead of engaging in conversations with those who disagree, has led each of us to spin toward extreme views

The argument against echo chambers is well documented: helped by social media algorithms, we are increasingly choosing to interact in safe spaces, with people who think and act like us — effectively preaching our opinions to the converted.

Because we are often connected with like - minded friends on social media, many of us have locked ourselves into echo chambers where most of the news we read or watch simply confirms what we already believe.

I take issue with his ideological selective bias, it creates an echo chamber on this web site that is more like a religion then science.

Beautiful Thing is a confident statement about musical and human authenticity, with production by UNKLE's Tim Goldsworthy which builds dub - like echo - chambers, inside which a kitchen sink's worth of sounds claustrophobically rattle.

I like Twitter because it lets me mute and block and prune my echo chamber to my heart's content.

I tried to think like a Yahoo! commenter while watching Coogler's film because I felt like the message of the film was already speaking to my choir and I wanted to consider how filmmakers and artists can reach beyond the echo chamber to try and change some minds about the issue of race in contemporary America.

We may believe intellectually in the clash of opinions, but in practice we like to embed ourselves in the reassuring womb of an echo chamber.»

In today's absurdly polarized politics, where everyone gets dubbed an ally or an enemy and either embraced or scorned 24/7, regardless of the issue, where we inhabit echo chambers, and where collaboration and comradeship seem possible only within them, a major reason we don't get much done is because we don't have enough people like Al..

The Bose Centerpoint surround feature seems to have a greater effect on the amount of reverb present and less on the physical location of sounds; it's overpowering in the intro to Pink Floyd's «Time» and makes Michael Ruff sound like he's «in an echo chamber,» says Sabin.

I go there primarily for camaraderie, but as a happy result, I've gotten all sorts of opportunities that lead to book sales (speaking gigs, writing jobs, fans in other times zones, etc) It seems like less of an echo - chamber than Facebook.

So they've been polling their echo chamber and coming back with results like «Everyone loves this idea,» «Everyone hates this idea,» «Everyone agrees that Amazon sucks,» etc..

Do they expect us to believe they developed a game like this in an echo chamber?

to be fair, dreams of 1:1 VR - like experiences grew only in the horrible hype echo chamber of message boards.

They quicken and subside, creating what sounds like a bowl of Rice Krispies in an echo chamber.

It is not surprising that you find such conspiracy theories on Anthony Watts» sectarian blog WUWT, a place where climate science amateurs present earth - shattering insights to their echo chamber like: The CO2 increase is not due to burning fossil fuels, but to insects!

Deniers constantly say things like this and yet I myself never see any real evidence of it... and I myself don't live only in the sealed off echo chamber of the denial blog world.]

Websites like WUWT and CA are echo chambers of the same falsehoods, which in many cases even contradict each other.

«We may believe intellectually in the clash of opinions,» Times» columnist Nicholas Kristof noted, «but in practice we like to embed ourselves in the reassuring womb of an echo chamber.»

Much has been written about the ideological echo chamber conservatives like Sen. James Inhofe, Rush Limbaugh, and Glen Beck have created to enforce anti-environmental orthodoxy on the Right.

Moreover, the event injected some much needed reality into the COP discussions; as one commentator noted «The Trump administration should be given credit for breaking into the echo chamber that conferences like this often foster `.

Otherwise it would be like the warmist sites an echo chamber.

The room with the blaring gramaphone is almost certainly the «Climate Fraudit echo chamber» and that Doorkeeper looks a lot like James Inhofe to me.

Without a doubt, had ExxonMobil used this same language in its disclosures it would spread like wildfire across the climate activist echo chamber as evidence of oil and gas companies manufacturing doubt and denial of climate change.

This is probably the premier site of strong AGW believers and I really would hate to see AGW skeptics become like 9/11 conspiracists, spending their time only on like - minded sites in some weird echo chamber.

He draws distinctions between statistical groups (Surowiecki's Wisdom of Crowds) and deliberating groups (where positions can become more entrenched through things like information cocooning and the echo chambers of thought created by homogenous cognitive models).

Talking about politics is hard, and if you're listening to Crooked Media podcasts, it might seem a little like you're staying in your echo chamber.

The project, which will serve as a social platform that will prevent issues like harassment and echo chambers, is scheduled to be launched by the end of 2017.

But when a major influencer like Rihanna wants to take a shot at the company from another network, outside Snapchat's echo chamber, stockholders listen.