How to Shake Up Your Echo Chamber

Note to Self

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

We tend to click on things we agree with already. Social media networks like to feed us the things we'll click on. This week, we talk with two professional Internet readers from BuzzFeed about why that could be a problem, and get their tips on widening our every day nets.

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0:00.0	From WNYC, I'm Manouche Summerodi and this is Note to Self.
0:07.0	I'm really good at stocking.
0:09.2	I do have some qualms about it, but ultimately I think it's inevitable.
0:14.3	It takes us usually about 23 minutes to refocus after the interruption.
0:18.5	The tech show about being human.
0:23.8	Today, a great question from a listener named Anid Chon in Portland, Oregon.
0:30.4	It's about what steps we can take to really expose ourselves to different kinds of people
0:36.6	and views online.
0:39.3	I have a concern about a personalized feat.
0:41.9	Do you think this is actually going to make us to be more judgmental about other person?
0:47.3	Because I would like to get emphasized by someone else that probably think the same way and
0:53.3	show up on our feet.
0:55.6	Anid knows that most of what she sees are opinions and voices like her own.
1:00.9	And she's worried that this makes her more judgmental about people because most of what
1:05.7	we believe gets emphasized by people who think the very same way.
1:11.1	And Anid, I just really think that your question about how we break out of our online bubble
1:16.8	is so spot on.
1:21.7	Okay, so first though, let's just talk about what this bubble actually is.
1:27.1	I mean, the simplest way to put it is you've heard the phrase, birds of a feather, they flock
1:32.1	together, right?
1:33.8	It's called homophily.
1:36.2	And the word means you're basically more likely to have friends that are similar to you
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