Facebook study suggests online users reinforce their views by creating echo chambers
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 - 09:34
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from several institutions in Italy and one in the U.S. has found evidence that suggests Internet users follow a pattern similar to that found in other media regarding how they look for and use information they find. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes how they downloaded data from Facebook, analyzed it and found examples of echo chamber type behaviors.