And except for professional news and politics junkies, we are probably all more or less guilty of this. People tend to screen out opinions which they disagree with quite often. It is just impossible.īut of course there is also the phenomenon he is talking about. Because the next day, there are a gazillion new articles to read and updates to check.
Everyone taking in a lot of information has to filter sources to some degree. “The variety of opinions being aired can be seen as helpful, but it also enables people to barricade themselves behind sources of information which only confirm their own wishes and ideas, or political and economic interests. Second, the Pope recognizes what Eli Pariser has described at length in his book by the same name as the “filter bubble.” One mode of information consumption is for gaining a deeper understanding, the other is rather a way to keep up-to-date with current events. The experience of picking up a monograph at a university library and taking meticulous notes is very different from the constant flows of information we expose ourselves to on social networking sites. Real-time news makes reflection more difficultįirst, a flood of information is rushing at us so quickly that it is difficult to pause and reflect on a complex topic. I agree that the Internet has that positive potential.īut he also recognizes to important problems or challenges of the flow of information as we know it online.
But he’s the Pope, so I should probably not be too nitpicky, after all. More worldly scholars of Internet history would surely add that engineers and scientists had a bit of a hand in this, too. In his view, the opportunities for communication on the Internet are “something truly good, a gift from God.”
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