How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump (Q2414)
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MIT Technology Review article
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How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump
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MIT Technology Review article
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When we encounter opposing views in the age and context of social media, it’s not like reading them in a newspaper while sitting alone. It’s like hearing them from the opposing team while sitting with our fellow fans in a football stadium.
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In sociology terms, we strengthen our feeling of “in-group” belonging by increasing our distance from and tension with the “out-group”—us versus them. Our cognitive universe isn’t an echo chamber, but our social one is. This is why the various projects for fact-checking claims in the news, while valuable, don’t convince.
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August 2018
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