Thursday, August 11, 2011

Internet Echo Chamber summarized beautifully by Clay Shirky

In a nutshell: Like-minded people, talking only with one another, usually end up believing a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk.

1 comment:

Tom said...

Not Clay Shirky, but Cass Sunstein:

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/sep/17/opinion/oe-sunstein17