Salon article on echo chambers. Many-to-Many:

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February 20, 2004

Salon article on echo chambers

Posted by David Weinberger

Salon is currently running an article of mine about the echo chamber meme. SPOILERS AHEAD: Many Net conversations that look like echo chambers in fact simply serve a different - and legitimate - social purpose than outsiders want them to. The real echo chamber is the mass media. There! I just saved you 1,500 words!

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1. Valdis on February 23, 2004 11:43 AM writes...

Re: Echo Chamber vs. Choir

Oh... I get it... an echo post... or is it three part harmony?

;-)

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