The question to ask with any media-is-an-echo-chamber study is: compared to what? Is it more or less echo chamber-y than what we had before?
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@zeynep right, but I think the default state of the Internet is chaos and conflict compared to real world, so having some filters is prob okThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@zeynep if we saw evidence agreement filters were creating echo chambers worse (or even equal) to non-media spaces, that would be a problem -
@stevenbjohnson@zeynep we need an index of echoness - perhaps similar to indexing virality http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-factor_%28marketing%29 … - Show replies
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