Research on the Rapid Growth of the Chamber Effect on Social Media

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220105.030How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Echo Chamber Effect; Group Polarization; Social Media; Framing

Abstract

The research is based on the phenomenon of constantly emerging echo chambers on social media that have created significant and huge damage to online communities. The formation of echo chambers seems to be unavoidable. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the development of modern echo chambers, especially on social media, and the existence of intentionally manipulated echo chambers used to gain profit or political power, such as “fake news”. The research object is social media echo chambers, and it attempts to approach them and the social media users who are in echo chambers using psychology. The paper is simply based on research on the Internet with a possible experiment (a hypothesis) that could be carried out to discover if there is a necessary correlation between the attitude inside of an echo chamber effect and the growth of it. It is unclear for now whether the echo chamber’s growth is relevant to attitudes, but it is certain that the echo chamber is gradually distorting views of users through group polarization and group think.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - ZiPeng Chen
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/17
TI  - Research on the Rapid Growth of the Chamber Effect on Social Media
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 153
EP  - 156
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.030
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.030
ID  - Chen2022
ER  -