I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen..

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see..

Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that….

In the last year, grassroots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the Party doesn't ne….

We really need the Internet to be that thing that we all dreamed of it being. We need it to connect us all together. We need it to introduce us to ne….

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world..

If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure..

To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in y….

Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on my conservative f….

Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily….

The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives..

It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you – that closes ….

In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept….

We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back..

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-i….

It feels great to have your own views reflected back to you, and you feel so right, but actually it's very dangerous. Because to make good decisions,….

If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about w….

Your filter bubble is your own personal, unique universe of information that you live in online. What's in your filter bubble depends on who you are,….

There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And….

We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed….

Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click..