filter bubble
nounEtymology Coined by American author, activist, and entrepreneur Eli Pariser in 2010.
1
A state of intellectual isolation resulting from exposure to only highly personalized Internet content (which is insular and polarizing).
- The other problem with algorithms is that they trap us in what is known as “filter bubbles” — the digital equivalent of an echo chamber, in which our incoming sources of information have been so customized to us that they simply confirm and reinforce what we already believe.2020 June 16, Brooke Shelby Biggs, “Do you live in a news bubble?”, in Independent Lens:
- Synonyms
- circle jerk, echo chamber, hugbox, mutual admiration society
- Related terms
- confirmation bias, selection bias