ERC Starting Grant · 2020
Modeling news flows: How feedback loops influence citizens' beliefs and shape societies
Our beliefs about society are largely based on information that we encounter through media. This happens more and more in an "unbundled” form: Single news items are distributed through sharing on social media, sorted by algorithms, and encountered on platforms on which they were not originally published. Many argue that this leads to so-called “echo chambers” and “filter bubbles”, communities of people that are only exposed to information they agree with. This is thought to lead to increasing polarization of society, and to a lack of diversity in people’s (virtual) communities. But a growing body of evidence suggests that these metaphors are misleading. In fact, as recent discussions on…
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