Facebook has become the world’s publishing Leviathan with 1.4 billion users — a cyberpopulation the size of China. Never before have so many of like mind and sympathetic bent been able to connect with each other. Yet, by slotting what is shared through algorithm and personalization into silos of the similar, few boundaries beyond the familiar are being crossed.
As identities fortify into tribes through this increasingly dominant medium, one wonders if the information age is becoming the age of non-communication. On this point, “technosociologist” Zeynep Tufekci contests a study recently released by Facebook that claims it is not creating …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
