Can you hear me now? Mitigating the echo chamber effect by source position indicators

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 184-196

  Liao, Q Vera ^a   Fu, Wai Tat ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Information diversity; Motivation; Selective exposure

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION;

CHAMBER EFFECTS; COMMON GROUND; CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS; INFORMATION DIVERSITY; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; SELECTIVE EXPOSURE; SOURCE POSITION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84898959321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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