ADP: Digital Polarization Initiative at Georgia College

Author: Michael Arthur Caulfield
Practical guide
Open textbook

As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.

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Cites Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, and largely supports our Go Upstream to the Source move as of above average value compared to things like looking for logical fallacies or going by look and feel of site: