The Filter Bubble
What the Internet Is Hiding from You
by Eli Pariser · first published 2011
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The hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling--and limiting--the information we consume. In 2009, Google began customizing its search results. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on. According to MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, this change is symptomatic of the most significant shift to take place on the Web in recent years--the rise of personalization. Though the phenomenon has gone largely undetected until now, personalized filters are sweeping the Web, creating individual universes o
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Isn't this a quote from "The Filter Bubble"? [0] Fantastic read by the way, for anyone who is interested in (or terrified of) behavioral advertising. [0]: http://www.amazon.com/Filter-Bubble-Personalized-Changing-Th...
on “David Gelernter predicted Dropbox in 1996” ↗…convinced of their positions: Their social media feeds give them constant reinforcement for their position by only surfacing news, people, and organization who share these position. Eli Pariser's book "The Filter Bubble" has some very good (and scary) insights into this dynamic.
on “Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed” ↗Great TED talk on the "Filter Bubble": http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
on “Is Facebook keeping you in a political bubble” ↗…diagnose medical problems. Other writings with somewhat similar themes: - Cathy O'Neil, "Weapons of Math Destruction - How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy"[2] - Eli Pariser, "The Filter Bubble"[3] There doesn't seem a universal term coined that generalizes the ideas in all 4 of those books but nevertheless, I'm sure more and more writers will notice they are talking about similar ideas. Side…
on “Thinking critically about and researching algorithms [pdf]” ↗YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s TED profile link: http://www.ted.com/speakers/eli_pariser.html Book link (sans referral): http://www.amazon.com/Filter-Bubble-What-Internet-Hiding/dp/...
on “Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" (TED)” ↗He has also written a book: http://www.amazon.com/Filter-Bubble-What-Internet-Hiding/dp/...
on “Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee weighs in: There’s Danger in the Filter Bubble” ↗This is shortsighted because if the leaders in Iran listen to Eli Pariser talk or read his book “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You" they would learn that the Iranians are more likely to develop tendencies towards extremist Islam rather than away from it due to the "filter bubbles" created by…
on “Iran Vows to Unplug Internet” ↗…twit filters. If I ever figure out a way to add a twit filter feature to my web consumption, David Brooks will be the very first pundit added to the list. Eli Pariser alerted us to the dangers of The Filter Bubble. I wish we lived in a world without trolls and useful idiots. Until then, I agreed with Clay Shirky: we need better filters.
on “The Best Books I Read in 2015” ↗…irrelevant groups for me to join (for example, facebook recently suggested I join a group for progressive asian-american christians. I am not asian or a christian) >#3 — Get unbiased results, outside the Filter Bubble. I read Eli Pariser's book and it was terrible. Full of "might" and "could" and little hard data. I am highly skeptical of the effect of a filter bubble. >#8 — Our search results aren’t loaded up with…
on “Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?” ↗>Is there an established "kittens to terrorist" pipeline? Yes, its what Eli Pariser described as a Filter Bubble, first identified in Google Search results. I wonder if there has been some code sharing going on between Google and Youtube, or if team members have jumped ship? https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b...…
on “The YouTube Rabbit Hole Is Nuanced” ↗…people who see the world differently understand each other and work productively together. Stack: React (Native) | Node.JS | NoSQL | OpenAI New Public is a non-profit that was founded by Eli Pariser (The Filter Bubble, Upworthy, MoveOn) and Talia Stroud (Prof at UT Austin) with the vision that we should focus not just on how to reduce the harms of online spaces, but how to design them so that they make good things…
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)” ↗Hello, untruths! >The term filter bubble was coined by internet activist Eli Pariser circa 2010. In Pariser's influential book under the same name, The Filter Bubble (2011), it was predicted that individualized personalization by algorithmic…
on “Review: Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart” ↗…Yelp again? Not very many, only a very small percentage of turns from the back, not even 100 users per day. The personalization of Web content is increasingly being criticized about in the book "The Filter Bubble" by Eli Pariser. How far would go in the personalization of Yelp? I think the criticism comes as a bit too far. We live in a world of information overload, and when I get presents relevant data for me,…
on “Yelp keeps Deal business running, CEO says in exclusive interview” ↗