Is the wall of the filters real? Brunes A.

The problem of the influence of ideologically engaged echo cameras and the filters bubbles on the nature of public discussions have long been a concern. Is this anxiety justified, or does it simply distract us from more serious problems? Axel Brunes claims that the effect of echo-camera and filter bubbles is very exaggerated. This topic is generated by moral panic about the role of network social media in society. Our obsession with the concepts of cameras and bubbles and a deeply rooted habit of blaming the network platforms and underlying the algorithms that are based on the background, pushing much more significant problems associated with the growth in democratic populism and super -polarization. Having weighed evidence in favor and against the existence of echo cameras and filter bubbles, Brunes convincingly shows why we should switch attention to more pressing issues.

This current book will be interesting to sociologists, media researchers, culturalists, as well as everyone who is concerned about the challenges that public discussions and the democratic process are faced as such.