Republic.com
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election: divided they blog
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Link discovery
The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
Blogs are Echo Chambers: Blogs are Echo Chambers
HICSS '09 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
NewsCube: delivering multiple aspects of news to mitigate media bias
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Republic.com 2.0
Presenting diverse political opinions: how and how much
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Political blog readers: Predictors of motivations for accessing political blogs
Telematics and Informatics
Managing political differences in social media
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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Modern social media have increasingly helped people separate themselves by worldview. We watch television shows and follow blogs that agree with our views, and read Twitter streams of people we like. The result is often called the echo chamber. Scholars cite political echo chambers as partly to blame for the divisive and destructive U.S. political climate. In this paper, we introduce a mobile application called Political Blend designed to combat echo chambers: it brings people with different political beliefs together for a cup of coffee. Based on interviews, we discovered that people are open to this kind of application and feel it may help the broader political environment. The primary contribution of this work is evidence that people are open to meeting those different from them, even those who ideologically oppose them. In an environment dominated by applications matching based on similarities, we see that this is an important finding.