The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

Tejas Patil said Provocative ideas, messy delivery. This books feels much more timely and urgent given the results of the "Provocative ideas, messy delivery" according to Tejas Patil. This books feels much more timely and urgent given the results of the 2016 US presidential election. The main thesis, that personalization of the internet is 1) far more all-encompassing than we would like to to believe and 2) has downstream consequences in how we organize our views on the world is very intriguing and the author promotes a very compelling concern regard. 016 US presidential election. The main thesis, that personalization of the internet is 1) far more all-encompassing than we would like to to believe and "Provocative ideas, messy delivery" according to Tejas Patil. This books feels much more timely and urgent given the results of the 2016 US presidential election. The main thesis, that personalization of the internet is 1) far more all-encompassing than we would like to to believe and 2) has downstream consequences in how we organize our views on the world is very intriguing and the author promotes a very compelling concern regard. ) has downstream consequences in how we organize our views on the world is very intriguing and the author promotes a very compelling concern regard. Want to know why all your liberal friends lost their Frank E. Nelson Want to know why all your liberal friends lost their marbles when Trump won? Want to know why us Bernie people living in "red" states saw this coming for months? You live in a filter bubble. Read this book and break out of your own personal filter bubble to see what is really going on in the world.. A must read for anybody who wants to know where our world is headed - and it's really scary Most of us who are perceptive already kind of know about the Bubble each of us gets in on the Internet (each person seeing a reflection of what the Internet agents like Google think you want to see), but this takes it to a whole new level of understanding. This is a must read for anybody who wants to know where our world is headed, especially if you're involved in marke

 THE FILTER BUBBLE reveals how personalization could undermine the internet’s original purpose as an open platform for the spread of ideas, and leave us all in an isolated, echoing world. information warfare, THE FILTER BUBBLE  tells the story of how the Internet, a medium built around the open flow of ideas, is closing in on itself under the pressure of commerce and “monetization.” It peeks behind the curtain at the server farms, algorithms, and geeky entrepreneurs that have given us this new reality, and investigates the consequences of corporate power in the digital age. But it is not too late to change course. As Pariser reveals, this new trend is nothing short of an invisible revolution in how we consume information, one that will shape how we learn, what we know, and even how our democracy works. Behind the scenes, a burgeoning industry of data companies is tracking our personal information to sell to advertisers, from our political leanings to the hiking boots we just browsed on Zappos. Pariser lays out a new vision for the web, one that embraces the benefits of technology without turning a blind eye to its negative consequences, and will ensure that the Internet lives up to its transformative promise.. In this engaging and visionary book, MoveOn board president Eli Pariser lays bare the personalization that is already taking place on every major website, from F

Some things, like homelessness or genocide, aren’t highly clickable but are highly important. Your filter bubble is this unique, personal universe of information created just for you by this array of personalizing filters. And in the near future, it’ll be possible to “fingerprint” unique devices, so that sites can tell which individual computer you’re using. But one of the creepy things about the filter bubble is that we’re not really doing the selecting. And very few users of those services are even marginally aware that this kind of filtering is at work. Q: Which companies or Websites are personalizing like this? A: In one form or another, nearly every major website on the Internet is flirting with personalization. We need algorithmic ethics to guide us through the next. At an aggregate level, they can see that people are clicking more. Facebook, for example, is notorious for its bait-and-switch tactics when i