 ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF FILTER BUBBLES AND PERSONALIZED NEWS-STREAMSDan Valeriu Voinea
Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 2017, vol. 3, issue 1, 189-195 Abstract: In the days of traditional media, be it print, radio, or television, every consumer of a product received the same information. However, with the transition to the online world, personalization, tailoring information to the individual’s interests, became a possibility. Starting with the advent of personalized search (Pitkow et al., 2002), which was introduced by Google as a feature of its search engine in 2004, interest-based advertising and personalized news became both features, improving the relevance of the information to a specific user, and ethical problems – how can information only I receive influence me? The issue is even more complicated when talking about social media and personalized news – how can we ensure algorithms are transparent and indiscriminate? The present research is focused on bringing to attention possible ethical dilemmas and solutions to filter bubbles brought on by news personalization. Keywords: filter bubbles; personalized news; information filtering; fake news; news algorithms; social media (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:edt:aucjcm:v:3:y:2017:i:1:p:189-195 Access Statistics for this article Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management is currently edited by Dan Valeriu Voinea More articles in Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management from Department of Communication, Journalism and Education Sciences, University of Craiova |
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