As consumers use the internet to isolate and refine their particular interests – whether news and entertainment, or bomb-making and pornography – they create a fragmented world of “echo chambers” isolated from the public space in which a healthy democracy thrives. Sunstein makes the crucial point that this process is not simply depoliticizing; rather, it creates a vacuum into which extreme views creep.
Democracy in the era of web 2.0 TLS
As consumers use the internet to isolate and refine their particular interests – whether news and entertainment, or bomb-making and pornography – they create a fragmented world of “echo chambers” isolated from the public space in which a healthy democracy thrives. Sunstein makes the crucial point that this process is not simply depoliticizing; rather, it creates a vacuum into which extreme views creep.
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