With an RSS reader (or feed aggregator) you can subscribe to my blog’s RSS feed and get notified every time I write a new blog post. You decide which web pages you want to keep informed about, and RSS channels notify you when new information arrives. RSS returns that control back to you without too much hassle. You have very little control over those process. Facebook, Google and other popular services have internal processes to decide what to show to you. RSS is an information channel that puts you in control. RSS is shorthand for Really Simple Syndication. Here are some of the tools and routines that I use: You need to bypass the companies and intermediaries who want to curate information for you. Once you have made the decision, how do you practically and systematically burst your filter bubble? You need to rethink the way you use the internet. Overcoming own confirmation bias requires genuine curiosity about others, no matter what they think and say and believe. Take a deep breath and give it a thought: Do you really want to step out of your filter bubble? Do you really want your views and opinions to be challenged? Have you heard about confirmation bias? Are you tolerant to other people’s views? One way to check this is to ask yourself: Do I often end up in discussions where I try to convince others to believe what I believe? Then maybe you should reconsider your need to step out of your filter bubble. But why not decide for myself what I want to see? Wouldn’t that be more fun? So why not try and burst your filter bubble? Here is my recipe as a researcher. I am not against big companies earning money –as long as they pay their taxes. Algorithm monsters developed by big companies select the information we are allowed to see. We don’t really see the internet anymore. Most of us, when we sit down with our smartphones or tablets –which we do many hours each day –go directly to the apps or web pages set up by big companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple etc. At least for those of us who live in our filter bubbles. Now it has become one of the most corporation-conformist places on earth. The internet was supposed to be liberating, globalizing, and democratizing. Here are some tips from my side on how I am always trying to burst my filter bubble. Do you live in a filter bubble? Do you see more Trump-related news every time you click on Trump-related news? If the answer is yes then you probably do live in a filter bubble, like most of us using the internet.
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