The Filter Bubble: How the hidden web is shaping lives

Pioneer in online campaigning Eli Pariser lays bare the forces controlling our online lives and argues for a new vision of a freer web.

[antqueen]

Sensational - worth every second of paying attention.

[JeremyKingTech]

I watched this as well as Eli Pariser's TED Talk 10 years ago. The writing was on the wall.

[MTR]

It's on the users to search out mind-expanding/alternative viewpoints. For example, I'm an anarchist that watches RSA. It's up to people to decide if they want to be challenged and how much. Should be commonplace knowledge soon enough that everything online is filtered.

[IngeSnip]

these bubbles are narrowing our world views, and it's so dangerous. This is one of the reasons we've actually started topishare.com, to basically regain power of what we see and what we share.

[bsoderlund]

It would be interesting if there was a sort of "nega-google" which could operate by the same statistics, but deliver the content completely opposite to your statistical preferences. To keep some sort of perspective at least.

[Ditrix]

that's why the "plus" is better than the "like"

[rustyrusky]

@xjustamem0ryx Yes, this is exactly my pov. Google doesn't lock out information, you'll get it if you learn how to access it. The results can be of an astonishing precision. When I want to know the opposite side of a popular argument I just make my search very precise and I get the information I want. "Egypt" is not precise, it's just a word that can be used in any sort of context and time.

The only thing I agree on is the like button. It really doesn't go for relevance but distorts the view

[andispellman]

How would I cite this for an APA format paper?

[HPhilippK]

Isn't this 'relevance' exactly the reason why people should keep on reading the good old newspaper?

[Archflip]

I guess in some way after watching this, it's our social responsibility to click the like button in order to disperse the information through the system.

[boredinyork]

Youtube isn't going to recommend French Cinema to me if I like this, is it? I really don't need that to be part of the bubble I'm currently in :p
Seriously though, great video, very thought provoking.

[iohnnyboywonder]

The surface web/Internet, is not what it used to be, historically, information searches were more neutral, (so to speak), when searching for information, now searches are being skewed by Search Engine personalisation loops, based on data base personiisation. As the guy says information is being manipulated, particularly  as  more & more  commercialisation £££$$$ takes place.

[keskursay]

i wonder wat sort of person would be suggested this channel.

[MrIzzyDizzy]

@toyshine i hate the second atatement in it -" we dont want to focus politics on a notion that involves the rejection of principles around witch a large majority of our fellow citizens have organised thier lives" = it shows we are going to only search for answers inside the box - and right now the world needs very creative solutions - that in fact are probably outside the box. similarly these filter bubbles can trap us in our own box of our own bias= anti-debate non challenging information

[MarkoKraguljac]

It exaggerates some aspects of a nascent and transitory technology but ok overall. At every stage of our development our brains impose filters themselves and slowly and spontaneously move forward by accepting small chunks of "unknown". As with eating, our connectomes do not become *better* through total exposure to all available data but by slow introduction of new stuff. Just leave Internet ON and everything will be better than ever.
Long live technological disruption!

[shotou]

My internet is my internet, and not the internet?

[RowdyWizzarrdd]

Sniffing cameraman distracts me. Still, a wonderful outlook.

[gogogodancer]

Well this is interesting, but sadly, i come from a time where we still used the dewey decimal system. I hardly think that i could go to a library, and then to the section that i was researching and find the book directly. There still is some digging necessary. research doesnt happen overnight, and even though the internet is there to 'help', we must continue to work at finding what it is we are seeking. Thumbs up for the interesting content either way.

[trEE]

random info: the interviewer is hot.... and intelligent... win!

[gdmaydieyoung]

@xjustamem0ryx But that's just what the internet could change. It could give a misinformed person true information. We can keep the idiots lower than the rest of us for the benefit of ourselves and that seems fine, but to create a world that gives everyone equal opportunity would be even better. The internet has the capability to do this; information bubbles destroy that capability. I'm not saying that people aren't responsible for themselves, but it's ok to help the "morons" out there.