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> echo-chambery What is the distinction you draw between an echo chamber and a community which mostly shares certain baseline assumptions and values?
by afarrell 6y ago
> echo-chambery
What is the distinction you draw between an echo chamber and a community which mostly shares certain baseline assumptions and values?
- bananamerica 6y agoAn echo chamber is violently hostile to different opinions and the individuals that defend them. A community with shared values tends to voice their disagreement (sometimes vehemently) without ejecting or deplatforming alien elements This usually excludes acts of moderation that enacts policies, guidelines, etc.
- teddyh 6y agoSince you ask: A community which just happens to mostly share common values is merely that and nothing more. An “echo chamber”, on the other hand, is when such a community does not get any significant input from any outside sources, and as a result keep reinforcing their own internal beliefs, even though those beliefs may be erroneous. This extreme homogeneity, thus created, in turn gives rise to a culture in which any persistent dissenters are viewed as anomalous and therefore dangerous. And this is limiting for those who sometimes wishes they could express dissent. It is also restricting the community itself from ever developing any further. To contrast, a normal community with mostly shared values would occasionally be affected by outside influences. This would create a constant level of turbulence in the system; there would always be some base level of variation between individuals, and over time, the median belief would slowly change this way and that, somewhat like fashions, and this would be normal.