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Article: Enclave extremism and journalism's brave new world: some contend that The Daily Me, a self-designed compendium of news and information, leads to increased political polarization.(Politics and the New Media)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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In 1995, MIT technology specialist Nicholas Negroponte predicted the emergence of The Daily Me--a newspaper that you design personally, with each component carefully screened and chosen in advance. With the increasing range of communications options, Negroponte's prediction is coming true. With just a few clicks, you can find dozens of Web sites to show you that you are quite right to like what you already like and to think what you already think.
If you want to read essays arguing that your preferred political positions are the right ones, the technology is available to allow you to do exactly that. The world of communications now contains innumerable information ...
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