Popping The Filter Bubble with Eli Pariser

Way back in 2010, Eli Pariser came up with the term filter bubble, the idea that people on the Internet tend to see only information that agrees with them, and then he published his book The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You. Since that time, Facebook took off, viral marketing went nuts, fake news appeared, American politics polarized to the extreme, and now we’ve got a huge backlash to globalization and technology companies. Businesses increasingly are caught in between this polarization. If a brand takes a stand that pleases some stakeholders in one bubble, then it risks alienating other stakeholders in another one. The situation is getting untenable.

Capgemini and the Applied Innovation Exchange are our partners in this series.

[philip]

Consider what the “do you trust elections” percentages are in March 2021.

[lrocky]

Just stumbled upon this Eli fella. Watched his Ted talk and then this. These are several years apart. He seems to have lost sight of the problem with content filtering.

Early he suggests about it being wrong, and companies shouldn't do it, or should be more transparent simplistic about how they do the filtering.

More recently he has created things that filter the filtered content.

That doesn't fix the problem. That only allows your biases to filter the already filtered content.

Is it just obvious to me that these content filters need to go away completely? Treat them like a computer virus.

[Epsomgwtfbbq]

Check out Stafford Beer's Liberty Machine. That's a project for you alright. (And don't just skim over an algorithmicly recommended synopsis, actually read his stuff! I'd say start with Designing Freedom.)

[Worlds_and_InBetween]

if you think of everything in terms of race are you not a...ra.ist..?

i don't think of people in terms of their race, or group, we are far too complex to try to stuff ppl into boxes.
the _only_ way that works is on the level of the individual.

I 'bond' on things like science, reading books, watching cat vids, engineering, music, having a laugh, loving your family excepting others that might not fit into the lines some wish to draw between us...
being a real person with their own real thoughts.

I could go on for years,

one easy way is not to judge people before you know them