filter bubble: translation
n.
Search results, recommendations, and other online data that have been filtered to match your interests, thus preventing you from seeing data outside of those interests.
Example Citations:Those same kind of surprises don't seem to happen to me the same way with online information. In the digital world, I find myself tending toward existing in a self-selected filter bubble. It's the difference between getting too much of what I like and not enough of what I need.
—Kevin Griffin, " Front: Your Former Vancouver Art Magazine: http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/cultureseen/archive/2011/06/24/front-your-former-vancouver-art-magazine.aspx," The Vancouver Sun, June 24, 2011
The real danger, right now, is losing engagement due to people finding themselves in a filter bubble, where people are never challenged by viewpoints that oppose what they already think.
—Duncan Geere, " Clicktivism's assault on dictators, politics and NGOs: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-06/23/guardian-activate-2011," Wired UK, June 23, 2011
Earliest Citation:Eli terms this phenomenon a "filter bubble" — a special sort of echo chamber. The better our filters get, the less likely we are to be exposed to something novel, unexpected, or uncomfortable.
—Ethan Zuckerman, " Eli Pariser on Filter Bubbles: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/06/03/eli-pariser-on-filter-bubbles/," My heart's in Accra," June 3, 2010
Notes:The phrase filter bubble was coined by Eli Pariser, the president of MoveOn.org, in a June 3, 2010 talk at the Personal Democracy Forum:
All this personalization creates a unique information ecosystem for every person.Let's call it a filter bubble.
Related Words:cyberbalkanization
cyberflaneur
disconfirmation bias
dittoheads
drink the Kool-Aid
dysrationalia
goalodicy
incestuous amplification
pareidolia
skeptimistic
splinternet
topsight
zombie lie
Categories:Data
Internet
I'm glad someone finally coined a term for this. I'd been sending emails to Alta Vista yonks ago (then Google) about putting this exact idea into their search engines from the start.