The Filter Bubble Quotes

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― Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You

“MySpace, to”
― Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You

“En 1920 Lippmann escribió que «la crisis de la democracia occidental es una crisis del periodismo»[93]”
― Eli Pariser, El filtro burbuja: Cómo la web decide lo que leemos y lo que pensamos

“Lock-in is the point at which users are so invested in their technology that even if competitors might offer better services, it’s not worth making the switch.”
― Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble

“If we want to know what the world really looks like, we have to understand how filters shape and skew our view of it.”
― Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You

“More and more, your computer monitor is a kind of one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click. Google’s”
― Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble

“Recebemos um serviço gratuito, e o custo são informações sobre nós mesmos.”
― Eli Pariser, O filtro invisível: O que a internet está escondendo de você

“If it seems unfair for banks to discriminate against you because your high school buddy is bad at paying his bills or because you like something that a lot of loan defaulters also like, well, it is. And it points to a basic problem with induction, the logical method by which algorithms use data to make predictions. Philosophers have been wrestling with this problem since long before there were computers to induce with. While you can prove the truth of a mathematical proof by arguing it out from first principles, the philosopher David Hume pointed out in 1772 that reality doesn’t work that way. As the investment cliché has it, past performance is not indicative of future results.”
― Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble

“More and more, your computer monitor is a kind of one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.”
― Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble

“N-Gram viewer”
― Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble

“Most personalized filters are based on a three-step model. First, you figure out who people are and what they like. Then, you provide them with content and services that best fit them. Finally, you tune to get the fit just right. Your identity shapes your media. There’s just one flaw in this logic: Media also shape identity. And as a result, these services may end up creating a good fit between you and your media by changing ... you.”
― Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble

“You have one identity,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told journalist David Kirkpatrick for his book The Facebook Effect. “The days of you having a different image for your work friends or coworkers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly.... Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”
― Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble

“By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.”
― Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You