Media Bias – What is it? Media bias is the perceived bias exercised by journalists, news outlets and mass media that impacts the professional standard
Tag: Media literacy
Media vs. Media Bias: Case Studies
Having young people as the main target of IDare, it is important not only to elaborate on their main sources of information but also on
A timeline for main fake news incidents and how it was handled
Fake news is nothing new. But, especially during the last presidential election in the United States in 2016, it has become something big. Here are
Echo chambers: an old school approach?
Echo chambers: an old-school approach? Echo chambers. For many of us, this is a 21st-century issue were we are extremely connected with media and social networks
Cyberbalkanization
In this article, I will try to go through a topic that has been gathering a lot of attention in the last years, and that
The CHANs (part 1)
Suffocating eco-chamber The anonymous website 4chan was created in 2003 by the American internet entrepreneur Christopher Poole. The website was originally fashioned on the “mold”
Watch this Italian, killing thousands of people with his apparently delicious pizza!
Ok now that I have gained your attention, I have to admit that this article does not really contain the story of an Italian serial
Attention Economy: marketing in the Social Media Era
Time is the most precious resource that we own, everyone wants a piece of it: owners, friends, family and Facebook. Time is anyway a discussed
The attention machine
Attention has been defined as the “notice taken of someone or something; the regarding of someone or something as interesting or important”. An object, situation
Alternative Narrative: the right path to prevent hate speech
Nowadays, negative attitudes towards human being -such as hatred, violent extremism, racism and so on- are spreading more and more rapidly. This phenomenon is certainly
The implications of filter bubbles in social media and the impact on the society
Daily routine: We wake up in the morning, we have breakfast and we open our smartphones to receive daily news about the world surrounding us.
What is an Echo-Chamber and how does it affect people in social media?
Nowadays, simultaneously with the increasingly influential and widespread use of social media, it has been observed that a very contagious social phenomenon is infecting our