Filter bubble

The Extreme Right Filter Bubble

Due to its status as the most popular video sharing platform, YouTube plays an important role in the online strategy of extreme right groups, where it is often used to host associated content such as music and other propaganda. In this paper, we develop a categorization suitable for the analysis of extreme right channels found on YouTube. By combining this with an NMF-based topic modelling meth...

Burst the Filter Bubble: Using Semantic Web to Enable Serendipity

Personalization techniques aim at helping people dealing with the ever growing amount of information by filtering it according to their interests. However, to avoid the information overload, such techniques often create an over-personalization effect, i.e. users are exposed only to the content systems assume they would like. To break this “personalization bubble” we introduce the notion of sere...

The filter bubble and its effect on online personal health information

Search engines and social networks are increasingly used for health related inquiry by the public. The information found through search engines, or presented by social network services are typically tailored to the individual through the use of complex algorithms taking into consideration comprehensive information about the individual performing the search, often without the knowledge of the se...

Book review of Eli Pariser's The filter bubble: What the Internet is hiding from you

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almost impossible even to ask many of these questions clearly without understanding statistics and computational approaches. And these problems require ever-sharper experimental tools, many of which will come from exploiting highly specific chemical reactions and interactions. What are the main challenges you see for the biomedical science community? We are tackling more genomes, ever more prot...