Breaking through ‘filter bubbles and echo chambers’
Stefan Klauser is lead strategist for the Digital Society project at Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). In a discussion on digital media and democracy at the Global Forum, he said it’s no secret by now that “democracy is under attack” because “in times of digital media and in particular social media, there is a lot of polarization.”
The reason is the “filter bubbles and echo chambers” that digital media consumers often find themselves in.
Is there hope to break through those polarizing feedback loops? Here’s what he had to say.
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