Abstract
Google is a powerful player in deciding how the world is represented to information-seeking citizens in a digitized knowledge-society. Eli Pariser has been influential in arguing that the company’s algorithm leave its users trapped in a biased ‘filter bubble’ where information about the world is tailored to their preferences by algorithms. This paper proposes a move away from the metaphor of the ‘bubble’ when trying to understand how ‘real world representations’ are shaped by dynamics of online visibility.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | MedieKultur |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 59 |
| Pages (from-to) | 6-27 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| ISSN | 1901-9726 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Filter bubble
- web-vision
- synthetic biology
- socio-technical systems