Election Reform Echo Chambers - Good and Bad [View All]

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Are Election Integrity Reformers in an Echo Chamber?



Are Echo Chambers Good or Bad?

Parrots?
"Echo chamber is a colloquial term used to describe a group of media outlets that tend to parrot each other's uncritical reports on the views of a single source, or that otherwise relies on unquestioning repetition of official sources."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Echo_chamber

Are we fooling ourselves? Does everyone think like us?

The Internet is a great validation device.
(Posted at Moore's Lore blog by "Dana"0

"But echo chambers, in the end, are irrelevant. They offer only the illusion of power, they are in fact illusions. Comfortable illusions, true, but illusions nonetheless. And when actions are taken based solely on what you hear in an echo chamber, know this now -- you are acting under a delusion.

I know. President Dean speaks to it."
http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/002029.html

Logistical support, exchange of opinion

Trapped in the echo chamber
By Andrew Leonard

The Internet as an echo chamber -

"Echo chambers, so the argument goes, are places where like-minded people talk to one another, nobody ever changes anyone else's mind and true diversity of opinion is exchanged for an infinite plenitude of ideologically identical communities. The Internet, say critics, is really, really good at providing logistical support for such places."

http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/col/leon/2004/11/03/echo_chamber/index.html

Andrew Leonard talks about folks becoming isolated

"...how easy it is to let an Internet site of like-mindedness form a nice, soft cocoon of intellectual safety around one's head."

We must remember the good and bad of Echo Chambers