http://www.thefilterbubble.com/ted-talk

“The structure of our media affects the character of our society”

(Parizer18)

December 4th 2009

What is democracy?

The Pillars of aDemocratic Society

• Freedom of Press• Freedom of

Information• Freedom of

speech/expression• Access to

information

The Public Sphere

Online democracy?

3rd spaces

Publics

How the filterbubble challenges this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2bbnlZwlGQ

Dialogue

Algorithms, code, and the missing masses

• break

The 4C’s of 2.0 Media Texts

Personalization

Filters

Filterbubbles

• You are in it- ALONE• It is invisible• You don’t choose to enter it

So why do we buy into it?

Schema & paradigms

Dangers of the filterbubble

Options moving forward

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Take it back- Make it visible