Breaking the Social Media Prism
How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
Chris Bail
Explore the deep social divisions powered by user behavior on social media and discover how we can defeat political tribalism in Chris Bail's insightful book, Breaking the Social Media Prism. Bail challenges common myths about echo chambers and radicalizing algorithms, revealing that the solution to political polarization lies within ourselves. Drawing on online experiments and interviews with users from across the political spectrum, he provides fresh solutions to counter tribalism, introduces new apps and bots, and explores the possibility of redesigning social media from scratch. This data-driven book offers recommendations for strengthening our social media connections and combating online polarization without resorting to deleting our accounts.
Publish Date
2021-04-06T00:00:00.000Z
2021-04-06T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
4
ISBN
9780691203423
Recommendations
2
Recommendations
2022-04-04T21:11:57.000Z
.@chris_bail wrote a superb book "Breaking the Social Media Prism," based on his research. In this Nature commentary he lays out what kind of research we most need now to figure out how to make social media less harmful: – source