Echo-chambers in online news consumption: Evidence from survey and navigation data in Spain:
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In this article, the authors contribute to this debate by combining survey results from the authors of this article and a survey from the University of Sheffield's Centre for Communication and Media Research.Abstract:
Whether people live in echo-chambers when they consume political information online has been the subject of much academic and public debate. This article contributes to this debate combining survey...read more
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