The early 2010s… The years when Web 2.0 applications spread to the masses and the new media revolution took place. With the widespread use of social media platforms, we, as the advocates of the New Media concept, took to the stage and defended the revolution of the new age. Information would now be democratized. No one would have the power to prevent everyone from learning the truth…
Back then, algorithms that learned about us and our interests were a beautiful thing. It knew us, and it would only show us the content we were interested in, without showing us a lot of unnecessary content that would waste time. But little did we know that these algorithms would trap us in our own echo chambers. We will just start going around and around in a small circle. without knowing whether the information we read is real or not.
I remember deleting Zite and Flipboard, the reason I bought an iPad, just for this reason. The application, which selects news according to my interests every time I enter, trapped me in a small word cloud after a while, and when I felt that we started to get lost among the content optimized and manipulated for these algorithms, I switched to Google Reader and then Feedly, which dropped the news according to the order of arrival from the news sources I followed. But it was not possible to escape from these algorithms on the Twitter feed, Facebook wall and…
