Are Media Echo Chambers As Big As We Think?

We’re constantly told that we’re trapped in media “echo chambers”, that our media diets mirror our political leanings. But what do the data say? Is it possible that a majority of us have a much more moderate media diet than we assume? A new paper by Andrew Guess, Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton, provides a completely unique data set that complicates our assumptions about America’s “echo chambers” and media diets.

Episode 31 of the Not Another Politics Podcast podcast, hosted by University of Chicago Podcast Network, titled "Are Media Echo Chambers As Big As We Think?" was published on March 10, 2021 and runs 44 minutes.

March 10, 2021 ·44m · Not Another Politics Podcast

Summary

We’re constantly told that we’re trapped in media “echo chambers”, that our media diets mirror our political leanings. But what do the data say? Is it possible that a majority of us have a much more moderate media diet than we assume? A new paper by Andrew Guess, Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton, provides a completely unique data set that complicates our assumptions about America’s “echo chambers” and media diets.

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