Beyond Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers: The Integrative Potential of the Internet

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dc.contributor.authorMahrt, Merja
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-19T15:43:25Z
dc.date.available2023-09-19T15:43:25Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractAre online audiences today fragmented into echo chambers or filter bubbles? Do users only see what digital platforms (like search engines or social media) let them see? And if so, what are the consequences for the cohesion of a society? Concerns like these abound in recent years. They attest to widely held assumptions about a negative influence of digital media or even the Internet in general on society. Empirical studies on these phenomena are, however, not as unequivocal. To understand why results from previous research are so far inconclusive, this study investigates the role of the Internet for social integration from a more general point of view. The integrative potential of the Internet is assessed to compare it with other media and ultimately better understand to what degree and due to which factors the Internet may or may not help bring society together. Using survey data, clickstream data on actual usage of websites, and data on content structures, the present work investigates how user behavior and structural features of the Internet determine its positive or negative effects on social integration. The results reveal that the Internet in general is not as bad as popular accounts of digital fragmentation may suggest. How much integrative potential can be realized via online offerings, however, depends on numerous factors on the side of the users as well as content and platform providers.
dc.identifier.citationMahrt, M. (2019). Beyond filter bubbles and echo chambers: The integrative potential of the Internet. Digital Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.17174/dcr.v5.0
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17174/dcr.v5.0
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/370
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherifpuk - Institute for Media and Communication Studies at FU Berlin
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectSociology & anthropology
dc.subjectNews media, journalism, publishing
dc.subjectPublizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen
dc.subjectSoziologie, Anthropologie
dc.subjectFilter Bubbles
dc.subjectEcho Chambers
dc.subjectMassively Overlapping Culture
dc.subjectClickstream data
dc.subjectSurvey
dc.subjectYouTube
dc.subjectSpiegel Online
dc.subjectMedieninhalte
dc.subjectKommunikationssoziologie, Sprachsoziologie, Soziolinguistik
dc.subjectInteractive, electronic Media
dc.subjectWirkungsforschung, Rezipientenforschung
dc.subjectImpact Research, Recipient Research
dc.subjectinteraktive, elektronische Medien
dc.subjectSociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics
dc.subjectBundesrepublik Deutschland
dc.subjectintegration
dc.subjectInternet
dc.subjectMedien
dc.subjectutilization
dc.subjectSoziale Medien
dc.subjectFederal Republic of Germany
dc.subjectinteraktive Medien
dc.subjectrecipient research
dc.subjectEmpirie
dc.subjectfragmentation
dc.subjectOnline-Medien
dc.subjectIntegration
dc.subjectRezipientenforschung
dc.subjectInhaltsanalyse
dc.subjectinteractive media
dc.subjectDigitale Medien
dc.subjectempirics
dc.subjectMassenkommunikation
dc.subjectsocial media
dc.subjectaudience
dc.subjectPublikum
dc.subjectNutzung
dc.subjectonline media
dc.subjectmass communication
dc.subjectempirische Forschung
dc.subjectInternet
dc.subjectFragmentierung
dc.subjectcontent analysis
dc.subjectsurvey research
dc.subjectempirical research
dc.subjectdigital media
dc.subjectUmfrageforschung
dc.subjectmedia
dc.titleBeyond Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers: The Integrative Potential of the Internet
dc.typeBook
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcmi.typeText
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBerlin, Germany
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.urlhttps://doi.org/10.17174/dcr.v5.0
local.researchgroupForschungssynthesen
local.researchtopicWeizenbaum Digital Science Center
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