Education in times of online bubbles: a Peircean approach

Abstract

The development of online social networks makes it possible to rethink how we interact and acquire information on the internet. Although potentially the internet as a vast repository of data, increasing chances of access to the various data, our modes of interaction on the net today show some restrictions in this universe of possibilities. In this text, we will show, how the emergence of bubbles online is one of those phenomena that show how certain modes of interaction on the internet can lead to very restricted worlds instead of providing us with the experience with the unknown to discover it. Although there is the strength of algorithms guiding interactions and choices, it is possible to affirm that construction of reception and appropriation of cultural products is a complex social process, involving a continuous activity of interpretation and assimilation of meaningful content by individuals and groups. Thus, although they play a decisive role in limiting exposure to different points of view, it is possible to affirm that algorithms are not the only determinant element in the filtering of content and individual agency. Given this, in addition to the algorithm, what are the reasons for the “embubblement” provided by Facebook?