How Facebook Polarizes Public Debate in Poland - Polish Filter Bubble

• Authors: Sawicka Zofia
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The dissemination of the media has led to the phenomenon of the mediatization of social reality, which in the era of new media has become dominant, because the new media have infiltrated almost every aspect of human functioning. The surprising paradox of the new media is the fact that on the one hand they give access to almost unlimited information, on the other hand they narrow it down extremely. The modern media user, often without realizing it, “uses” only the information that is offered to him by specially selected internet algorithms. Created in this way the so-called “information/filter bubble” condemns him to the only vision of reality - and in the absence of the possibility of verifying his observations what results from the way the new media works - in his opinion the only true one. This is particularly important in creating the vision of social order and the functioning of the state. The mediatisation of Polish social reality - especially in the context of social media - led to the emergence of polarized groups isolated from each other and caused a lack of rational political debate on a number of important social issues.

Keywords

EN

Facebook; filter bubble; narcissism; public debate; Polish public opinion

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Informatyki i Zarządzania z siedzibą w Rzeszowie
• Journal: Social Communication. Online Journal
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 2(20)
• Pages: 45-52

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Sawicka Zofia

• Wyższa Szkoła Informatyki i Zarządzania z siedzibą w Rzeszowie

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2450-7563