#filter bubbles

[kinetoons]

Ye olde signal boost.

Remember Cambridge Analytica? This year, let’s not make the same mistakes.

[protoslacker]

Meanwhile, Eno was stealing the show from Ferry, not musically but with his image--his flutterlashed amphetamine spider look on the inside of For Your Pleasure is alone worth the price of the album. Later he would abandon things like makeup and outrageous clothes both in and out of the public eye, opting instead for a more modestly functional look (even if he doesn't always keep his shirts buttoned much above the navel), and looking back on those wild visuals today he says: "It was just a piece of work, a very interesting person that I made for a little while. It was a person that was slightly separate from me as well, and the problem with it was that it was very quickly became a limiting for a little while. It was a person that was slightly separate from me as well, and the problem with it was that it very quickly became a limiting identity because for one thing it scared everybody away," he laughs. "Things like that act like filters, and this was acting as the wrong kind of filter. It filtered out exactly the kind of people that I wanted to meet, and attracted exactly the kind that I didn't want to. You'd have to have some idea of the English trendy scene at the time... it just attracted assholes I didn't want to have anything to do with. There was kind of assumed heroism about it, when in fact it was very easy to do. There's nothing heroic about it in that kind of situation, because if you're in a band you're in a totally protected environment. It'd be a lot more difficult for a schoolteacher, say, someone who actually had to deal with people outside the same set of assumptions. It's an easy way of getting a reaction, and being easy doesn't cancel it out--I suppose what also happened was that I fell out of love with that aesthetic of... not shock, but flamboyance.

Lester Bangs at Perfect Sound Forever. Brian Eno: A Sandbox In Alphaville

Via Bruce Sterling

[necclibrary]

Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda

The 2016 Presidential election shook the foundations of American politics. Media reports immediately looked for external disruption to explain the unanticipated victory—with theories ranging from Russian hacking to “fake news.” We have a less exotic, but perhaps more disconcerting explanation: Our own study of over 1.25 million stories published online between April 1, 2015 and […]

“It is a mistake to dismiss these stories as “fake news”; their power stems from a potent mix of verifiable facts..., familiar repeated falsehoods, paranoid logic, and consistent political orientation within a mutually-reinforcing network of like-minded sites.

Use of disinformation by partisan media sources is neither new nor limited to the right wing, but the insulation of the partisan right-wing media from traditional journalistic media sources, and the vehemence of its attacks on journalism in common cause with a similarly outspoken president, is new and distinctive.”

[criticaldigitalmedia]

Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth

The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings.

[geostratigiki]

Τα social media δεν είναι ουδέτερα. Είναι πεδίο σύγκρουσης. Δείτε πώς η πληροφορία μετατρέπεται σε όπλο ισχύος. ▶️

Η οπλοποίηση των Social Media: Όταν η πληροφορία γίνεται πεδίο σύγκρουσης

[hjellacott]

So this is how the internet only tells you what you want to hear

[criticaldigitalmedia]

What Spotify took from us by giving us everything

Liz Pelly’s new book examines how playlists reshaped our culture.

[evaluationvault]

Inside the Machine: How Algorithmic Bias Fuels Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles

Inside the Bubble: How Media Shapes What We See and Believe Echo chambers, filter bubbles, and algorithmic bias are critical frameworks in understanding how digital media influences information dissemination and consumption. These concepts address the narrowing of perspectives and reinforcement of pre-existing beliefs facilitated by modern media systems and algorithms. The term echo chamber…

Inside the Machine: How Algorithmic Bias Fuels Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles