But how would you know, what with the cat videos, bloviations from
political echo chambers and ginned - up controversies on ESPN's First Take making a claim on your time?
This is the result of
the political echo chamber the Tories have devised for themselves.
Dr Elizabeth Dubois, co-author and Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa, said: «Our results show that most people are not in
a political echo chamber.
Not exact matches
But his audience is those readers who are so trapped within a
political subculture's
echo chamber that they don't know anyone who will be voting for the other candidate.
Remember the audience — a Bible savvy, but
echo -
chambered Christian who left the
political RIGHT CHristians but still clinging on to the BIBLE.
Even when Facebook downplayed the importance of the
echo chamber effect in their own Science study, the data was based on a tiny snapshot of users (i.e. those who declared their
political ideology or about 4 % of the total Facebook population).
This behind - the - scenes curation reinforces our
political points of view through online «
echo chambers» that affirm, instead of challenge, what we already believe to be true.
Compared with the less politically inclined, these people were found to be media junkies, who consumed
political content wherever they could find it, and as a result of this diversity they were less likely to be in an
echo chamber.
Using a random sample of adult internet users in the UK, researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute and the University of Ottawa examined people's media choices, and how much they influenced their interaction with
echo chambers, against six key variables: gender, income, ethnicity, age, breadth of media use and
political interest.
While age, income, ethnicity nor gender were found to significantly influence the likelihood of being in an
echo chamber,
political interest significantly did.
I wonder if it is a toxic combo of
political affiliation + too much formula +
echo -
chamber + careless (and care less) editing?
Manhattan is the mothership of
echo chambers, and not all of its
echo chambers are
political in nature.
On the one hand, it is very important for the
political right to have this
echo chamber out there — and the arguments generated by conservative think tanks would interact with the biased reasoning processes that are the subject of my piece in a kind of one - two combination.