Echo Chambers Epistemic Bubbles

Thesis:

Though epistemic bubbles gain more recognition, echo chambers serve as a dangerous threat requiring much more unique elaborate steps to dismantle and/or escape from one. It requires a full understanding of both Epistemic bubbles, Echo Chambers, and how they are created, maintained and dismantled, primarily focusing on the drastic influence of knowledge on Echo Chambers.

Exposition:

Epistemic Bubbles are structures that leave out relevant information, primarily opposing views due to lack of encounter with these views because of their specific predicament that may stop them from seeing these opposing views. Echo Chambers are structures that actively discredit and dismiss relevant information, unlike Epistemic Bubbles that often do

He addresses how Epistemic Bubbles can easily be set up accidentally but he points out that Echo Chambers, especially with certain aspects of it, are often set up intentionally and if not, are maintained. He also points out that Echo Chambers strategically discredits the idea. He states the reason for this is because Echo Chambers gives power to those at the top of it. He says it can arise from social dynamics that give power to certain people over others and says this may explain why there is prevalent ignorance amongst non-oppressed groups, often with the denying of any oppression amongst groups that are actually oppressed

He explains it in terms of Epistemic Bubbles and Echo Chambers, primarily Echo Chambers. He compares the symptoms of post truth phenomenon with the same symptoms of highly effective echo chambers; that with no form of trust amongst those within echo chambers and outsiders, as well as there is an accepted behavior for a lack of discretion when evaluating an opposing viewpoint within the echo chamber and combined with the need for connection, since the only idea they are accepting is the one that reinforces the ideas they already have within the echo chamber, it only creates even more self-reinforcement (150).

For Epistemic Bubbles: The fortification of Epistemic Bubbles stems from the unknowing lack of exposure to opposing views. This long term lack of exposure limits their viewpoints to only the ones that continuously encounter, and the way they may limit this is boundless (142-143). One prevalent example may be limiting their viewpoints by turning their chosen friends and family into sources of news, even though people oftentimes have similar views with their families and make friends through similar views