Democracy and filtering

Authors:
Cass R. Sunstein
Affiliations:
University of Chicago Law School
Venue:
Communications of the ACM - The Blogosphere
Year:
2004

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Abstract

The Web gives us the ability to filter out unwanted noise and to create our own personal echo chambers---but democracy itself means each of us should be exposed to new topics and contrary opinions.