Breaking the Social Media Prism : : How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing / / Chris Bail.

A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online—and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social mediaIn an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use soci...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 1 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the 2022 Paperback Edition
  • 1. The Legend of the Echo Chamber
  • 2. Why Not Break Our Echo Chambers?
  • 3. What Happens When We Break Them?
  • 4. The Social Media Prism
  • 5. How the Prism Drives Extremism
  • 6. How the Prism Mutes Moderates
  • 7. Should I Delete My Account?
  • 8. Hacking the Prism
  • 9. A Better Social Media
  • Appendix: Research Methods
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index