Filter Bubble

News literacy involves understanding how news filters into the public domain. Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com When it comes to news literacy, schools often emphasize fact-checking and hoax-spotting. But as I argue in my new book, schools must go deeper with how…

In 1968, Lyndon Johnson appointed a National Commission on Obscenity and Pornography to investigate the supposed sexual scourge corrupting Americas youth and culture. Two years laterwith Richard Nixon now presidentthe commission delivered its report, finding …

It plays from a variety of sources instead of just the few you hand-pick Google is rolling out a new service for Google Assistant that its calling Your News Update. It takes the idea of an algorithmically determined news feed the kind you get from Facebook o…

Charlie is a smart, creative, value-driven young person who is typical of many her age. She has no idea what she wants to do. Careers testing at school told her that gardening or being an entrepreneur could be the answer, and although these ideas were sligh…

Nobody wants to leave their apartment anymore. Thats the prevailing sentiment on the internet, anyway. Mean Girls memes and Viola Davis gifs celebrate the joy of canceling plans. Essays offer neuroscience-backed explanations of the relief that comes with bail…

Jumps to section: Privacy protection through Android features Saves the lock screen A good display lock is one of the easiest steps to more security. Only those who know your code can operate your smartphone. You can choose between a blocking pattern, a fo…

Singer-songwriter David Dondero returns with a new album, The Filter Bubbles Blues, on 17 January 2020 via Portland, Oregon's Fluff & Gravy imprint. "Easy Chair" exemplifies the album's chronicling of the American dream's death rattle amid political theat…

Made it back to the farm yesterday afternoon to find that some of the grass has grown over a foot in two weeks. A very 'back to reality' moment. On the boats, flights and taxis I just took, I had the opportunity to ponder bubbles. Fiji isn't the bubble it…

From data-harvesting and ideological echo-chambers to hate speech and trolling, the big social-media platforms are facing more criticism than ever before. Less tech utopias, and more saloon brawls in 1940s western movies where everyone gets beaten up (except …

Private spaces cant give us everything we need from a life online, the internet activist says This story is part of a group of stories called Given the phenomenon it describes, its perhaps appropriate that the concept of filter bubbles has turned out to be…