• DOI:10.1093/POQ/NFW006
Corpus ID: 2386849

Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Online News Consumption

@article{Flaxman2016FilterBE,
  title={Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Online News Consumption},
  author={S. Flaxman and Sharad Goel and Justin M. Rao},
  journal={Public Opinion Quarterly},
  year={2016},
  volume={80},
  pages={298-320}
}

• S. Flaxman, Sharad Goel, Justin M. Rao
• Published 2016
• Sociology
• Public Opinion Quarterly

Online publishing, social networks, and web search have dramatically lowered the costs of producing, distributing, and discovering news articles. Some scholars argue that such technological changes increase exposure to diverse perspectives, while others worry that they increase ideological segregation. We address the issue by examining webbrowsing histories for 50,000 US-located users who regularly read online news. We find that social networks and search engines are associated with an increase… Expand

View via Publisher

5harad.com

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed