Explore the psychological effects of echo chambers and how they ignite warring narratives in modern communication.
SAN FRANCISCO — Facing heat for conducting a psychological experiment on unwitting users, Facebook last summer began another study to see whether the social network insulates members from diverse ...
Chatbots share limited information, reinforce ideologies, and, as a result, can lead to more polarized thinking when it comes to controversial issues, according to new Johns Hopkins University–led ...
One of the highlighted studies of the COMET project, in collaboration with University College London, has analyzed in depth the scam known as “Hi, mom and dad”, which operates through SMS. “We ...
As I discussed in last week's Stateside, it's not hard to find people online criticising the GamerGate movement. However, for all it's troublesome elements, it's served as a powerful reminder to ...
The study of audio technology has a lot of fascinating branches, and one or two of them even take the curious engineer not into electronics but into architecture. There’s the anechoic chamber with its ...