Measuring online social bubbles

PeerJ Computer Science

Volumn 2015, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Nikolov, Dimitar ^a   Oliveira, Diego F M ^a   Flammini, Alessandro ^a   Menczer, Filippo ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Diversity; Echo chamber; Filter bubble; Polarization; Web traffic

Indexed keywords

FILTRATION; POLARIZATION;

BIAS; DIVERSITY; ECHO CHAMBER; FILTER BUBBLE; WEB TRAFFIC;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85018057702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23765992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.38     Document Type: Article

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