17 min listen
Social Bubble Bath
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Mar 19, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
We’ve long heard that the ways the web is tailored for each user—how we search, what we’re shown, who we read and follow— reinforces walls between us. Veronica Belmont investigates how social media can create, and can break our filter bubbles. Megan Phelps-Roper discusses the Westboro Baptist Church, and the bubbles that form both on and offline. B.J. May talks about the bubbles he encountered every day, in his Twitter feed, and tells us how he broke free. Rasmus Nielsen suggests social media isn’t the filter culprit we think it is. And, within the context of a divided America, DeRay McKesson argues that sometimes bubbles are what hold us together.
IRL is an original podcast from Mozilla. For more on the series go to irlpodcast.org.
Read B.J. May's How 26 Tweets Broke My Filter Bubble.
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Leave a rating or review in Apple Podcasts so we know what you think.
IRL is an original podcast from Mozilla. For more on the series go to irlpodcast.org.
Read B.J. May's How 26 Tweets Broke My Filter Bubble.
To grab a cup of coffee and Say Hi From the Other Side go here.
Leave a rating or review in Apple Podcasts so we know what you think.
Released:
Mar 19, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (54)
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