Eli Pariser

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Eli Pariser
The Filter Bubble
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Eli Pariser (born December 17, 1980) is an author, activist, and entrepreneur. He has stated that his focus is "how to make technology and media serve democracy".

global citizen's organization. His bestselling book, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You, introduced the term “filter bubble” to the lexicon. He is currently an Omidyar Fellow at New America and co-directs the Civic Signals project at the National Conference on Citizenship
.

Early life

Pariser was born to Dora Lievow of

Jewish.[5]

Career

Pariser's rise to prominence as a political activist began when he and college student David H. Pickering launched an online petition calling for a nonmilitary response to the attacks of September 11. At the time, he was working as a program assistant for the national nonprofit More Than Money. In less than a month, half a million people had signed the petition.

Pariser joined

MoveOn.org
from 2004 to 2008 and since 2008 has been Board President.

Pariser later became concerned about the development of

Yahoo to search for a phrase or term on the Internet.[8] For example, a liberal typing "BP" might get information about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
, while a conservative typing "BP" might get investment information about the oil company.

Anticipating the dangers of a hyper-personalized Internet, Pariser introduced the term “

TED talk on the topic now has over five million views.[12] In 2012, he co-founded Upworthy, a media company designed to make civically important ideas popular, with Peter Koechley. Within two years, Upworthy had over 80 million monthly visitors.[13]

In 2018, with Professor

Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, a Langfield Visiting Resident at Princeton University, and an Omidyar Fellow at the New America. He is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders.[16]

Works

References

  1. ^ Sam Sanders (20 June 2017). "Upworthy Was One Of The Hottest Sites Ever. You Won't Believe What Happened Next". NPR. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Eli Pariser". ethics.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
  3. ^ "President of MoveOn.org, Eli Pariser ’96 Returns to Campus to Deliver Lecture" Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Bard College at Simon's Rock news.
  4. ^ "Eli Pariser's Commencement Address: Simon's Rock College Commencement Address by Eli Pariser, '96 on May 14, 2005" Archived May 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, 2005, Simon's Rock College News.
  5. ^ "Jewish Insider's Daily Kickoff: December 15, 2017". Haaretz.
  6. ^ a b Packer, George (2003-03-09). "Smart-Mobbing The War". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
  7. ^ *Markels, Alex (May–June 2003). "Virtual Peacenik". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2007-05-01.
  8. ^ Bianca Bosker (2011-03-07). "Facebook, Google Giving Us Information Junk Food, Eli Pariser Warns". Huffpost Tech. Retrieved 2011-04-20. When it comes to content, Google and Facebook are offering us too much candy, and not enough carrots.
  9. ^ Delaney, Kevin J. (21 February 2017). "Filter bubbles are a serious problem with news, says Bill Gates". Quartz. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
  10. ISBN 978-3319096223
    .
  11. ISSN 0307-1235
    . Retrieved 2019-11-05.
  12. ^ Pariser, Eli (2 May 2011). "Transcript of "Beware online "filter bubbles""". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
  13. ^ Klein, Ezra. "Does Upworthy prove media outlets are hurting themselves by publishing so much content?". Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
  14. ^ Zoe Schiffer (2019-11-12). "'Filter Bubble' author Eli Pariser on why we need publicly owned social networks". theverge.com.
  15. ^ "What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good?". 7 November 2019.
  16. ^ "Eli Pariser". rsf.org. 9 September 2018.

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