Why echo chambers are useful
Ole Jann, Christoph Schottmüller Why do people appear to forgo information by sorting into "echo chambers"? We construct a highly tractable multi-sender, multi-receiver cheap talk game in which players choose with whom to communicate. We show that segregation into small, homogeneo...
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University of Oxford
2018
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| description | Ole Jann, Christoph Schottmüller Why do people appear to forgo information by sorting into "echo chambers"? We construct a highly tractable multi-sender, multi-receiver cheap talk game in which players choose with whom to communicate. We show that segregation into small, homogeneous groups can improve everybody's information and generate Pareto-improvements. Polarized preferences create a need for segregation; uncertainty about preferences magnifies this need. Using data from Twitter, we show several behavioral patterns that are consistent with the results of our model. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:24db4d42-f9e6-4859-a7e5-438d11fcc8082022-03-26T11:52:31ZWhy echo chambers are usefulWorking paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:24db4d42-f9e6-4859-a7e5-438d11fcc808Bulk import via SwordSymplectic ElementsUniversity of Oxford2018Jann, OOle Jann, Christoph Schottmüller Why do people appear to forgo information by sorting into "echo chambers"? We construct a highly tractable multi-sender, multi-receiver cheap talk game in which players choose with whom to communicate. We show that segregation into small, homogeneous groups can improve everybody's information and generate Pareto-improvements. Polarized preferences create a need for segregation; uncertainty about preferences magnifies this need. Using data from Twitter, we show several behavioral patterns that are consistent with the results of our model. |
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