Echo chamber

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

2

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

In the context of news media and social media, an echo chamber is defined as an environment or ecosystem in which participants encounter beliefs that amplify or reinforce their preexisting beliefs, by communication and repetition inside a closed system and insulated from rebuttal.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Echo chamber (media)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Diaz Ruiz, C. and Nilsson, T.; MexFin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.