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Dissent due to more links

Published on June 25, 2011. 0 Comments

I watched Eli Pariser’s TED talk on increasing bi-polarization of viewpoints due to automatic prioritizing of Facebook news feed items.

I think this effect is related and enforced by what is studied in a model by J.K. Shin and me in Tipping Diffusivity in Information Accumulation Systems: More Links, less Consensus (Shin & Lorenz, JSTAT 2010, arXiv).
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