Fall 2020
Week 7: 1995–2001
Bubbles: News Silos and the Dot-com Crash
Materials
• C. Thi Nguyen, “The Problem of Living Inside Echo Chambers,” The Conversation, September 11, 2019.
• Casey Newton, “The Author of The Filter Bubble on How Fake News Is Eroding Trust in Journalism,” The Verge, November 16, 2016.
• David Robson, “The Myth of the Online Echo Chamber,” BBC News, April 16, 2018.
• David Weinberger, “Pointing at the Wrong Villain: Cass Sunstein and Echo Chambers,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 20, 2017.
Recommended
Further Reading
• C. Thi Nguyen. “Echo Chambers and Epistemic Bubbles.” Episteme 17, no. 2 (2020): 141–161.
• Cass R. Sunstein. #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media. Princeton University Press, 2017.
• Eli Pariser. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You. Penguin, 2011.
• Evgeny Morozov. The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. Public Affairs, 2012.
Podcasts
• “New Media, Old Story,” The Secret History of the Future, September 4, 2019.
• “Chapter 5: Mercury Center, Pathfinder, Wired, Salon, Slate and Suck” and “Chapter 8: How the Dotcom Bubble Happened,” Internet History Podcast, 2014–2017.