Filter bubble critiques reading list
Focus: | Articles critiquing/debunking the notion of the ‘filter bubble’ and/or selective information exposure. |
Additions: | Please send them to: @silvertje or a.helmond@uva.nl Thanks to all contributors. |
Last update: | 21 April 2017 |
Bakshy, Eytan, Solomon Messing, and Lada Adamic. 2015. “Exposure to Ideologically Diverse News and Opinion on Facebook.” Science 348 (6239): 1130–32. doi:10.1126/science.aaa1160.
Bessi, Alessandro. 2016. “Personality Traits and Echo Chambers on Facebook.” Computers in Human Behavior 65 (December): 319–24. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.08.016.
Bozdag, Engin. 2013. “Bias in Algorithmic Filtering and Personalization.” Ethics and Information Technology 15 (3): 209–27.
Bozdag, Engin, and Jeroen Hoven. 2015. “Breaking the Filter Bubble: Democracy and Design.” Ethics and Information Technology 17 (4): 249–65. doi:10.1007/s10676-015-9380-y.
Bozdag, Engin. 2015. “Bursting the Filter Bubble: Democracy, Design, and Ethics.” Ph.D., Delft, the Netherlands: TU Delft, Delft University of Technology. http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:87bde0a2-c391-4c77-8457-97cba93abf45.
Flaxman, Seth, Sharad Goel, and Justin Rao. 2016. “Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Online News Consumption.” Public Opinion Quarterly 15 (3): 209–27. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/03/21/poq.nfw006.short.
Flaxman, Seth, Sharad Goel, and Justin M. Rao. 2013. “Ideological Segregation and the Effects of Social Media on News Consumption.” Available at SSRN. http://www.justinmrao.com/bubbles.pdf.
Gentzkow, Matthew, and Jesse M. Shapiro. 2011. “Ideological Segregation Online and Offline.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 126 (4): 1799–1839. http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/126/4/1799.short.
Harper, Tauel. 2016. “The Big Data Public and Its Problems: Big Data and the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere.” New Media & Society, April, 1461444816642167. doi:10.1177/1461444816642167.
Madsen, Anders Koed. 2016. “Beyond the Bubble: Three Empirical Reasons for Re-Conceptualizing Online Visibility.” MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research 31 (59): 22. http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/article/view/19235
Miller, Boaz, and Isaac Record. 2013. “Justified Belief in a Digital Age: On the Epistemic Implications of Secret Internet Technologies.” Episteme 10 (02): 117–34.
Miller, Boaz, and Isaac Record. 2016. “Responsible Epistemic Technologies: A Social-Epistemological Analysis of Autocompleted Web Search.” New Media & Society, May. doi:10.1177/1461444816644805.
Nguyen, Tien T., Pik-Mai Hui, F. Maxwell Harper, Loren Terveen, and Joseph A. Konstan. 2014. “Exploring the Filter Bubble: The Effect of Using Recommender Systems on Content Diversity.” In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web, 677–86. ACM. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2568012.
Pariser, Eli. 2011. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You. Penguin UK.
Rader, Emilee, and Rebecca Gray. 2015. “Understanding User Beliefs about Algorithmic Curation in the Facebook News Feed.” In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 173–82. ACM. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2702174.
Yom-Tov, Elad, Susan Dumais, and Qi Guo. 2013. “Promoting Civil Discourse Through Search Engine Diversity.” Social Science Computer Review, November. doi:10.1177/0894439313506838.
Tufekci, Zeynep. 2015. “How Facebook’s Algorithm Suppresses Content Diversity (Modestly) and How the Newsfeed Rules Your Clicks.” Medium. May 7. https://medium.com/message/how-facebook-s-algorithm-suppresses-content-diversity-modestly-how-the-newsfeed-rules-the-clicks-b5f8a4bb7bab.
Willson, M., 2014. “The politics of social filtering.” Convergence 20, 218–232. doi:10.1177/1354856513479761
Zuckerman, Ethan. 2014. Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection. 1 edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 108
Zuiderveen Borgesius, Frederik J., and Damian Trilling, and Judith Möller, and Balázs Bodó, and Claes H. de Vreese, and Natali Helberger. 2016. "Should we worry about filter bubbles?". Internet Policy Review 5 (1). DOI: 10.14763/2016.1.401. http://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/should-we-worry-about-filter-bubbles.
Duits, Linda. 2016. “Weinig Empirisch Bewijs Voor Filterbubbels.” Diep Onderzoek. May 6. http://www.dieponderzoek.nl/weinig-empirisch-bewijs-voor-filterbubbels/. (Dutch)
de Jesus, Nina. 2014. “The Filter Bubble Is a Misguided, Privileged Notion.” Geek Feminism Blog. February 27. https://geekfeminism.org/2014/02/27/the-filter-bubble-is-a-misguided-privileged-notion/.
McKelvey, Fenwick. 2016. “No More Magic Algorithms: Cultural Policy in an Era of Discoverability — Data & Society: Points.” Medium. May 9. https://points.datasociety.net/no-more-magic-algorithms-cultural-policy-in-an-era-of-discoverability-6ba07eda2b89.
Oremus, Will. 2017. “The Filter Bubble Revisited.” Slate. April 5. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2017/04/filter_bubbles_revisited_the_internet_may_not_be_driving_political_polarization.html.
Pariser, Eli. 2015. “Did Facebook’s Big Study Kill My Filter Bubble Thesis?” Backchannel. May 7. https://backchannel.com/facebook-published-a-big-new-study-on-the-filter-bubble-here-s-what-it-says-ef31a292da95.
Rudin, Dave. 2017. “Stuck in the Middle.” Real Life. April 4. http://reallifemag.com/stuck-in-the-middle/.
Schwartz, Barry. 2011. “Duck! Google’s Cutts Responds To Search Filter Bubbles.” Search Engine Roundtable. June 21. https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-bubble-response-13591.html.