The Media and Echo Chambers

<p>Is it really true that we all live in our own echo chambers? Fake news and the filter bubble, post-truth and alternative facts… Are we all, as President Obama put it, ‘absorbing an entirely different reality’?</p> <p>In this episode we’re asking: Is our sense of a shared reality becoming even more fragile? And is fragmentation of the media the cause – or just the symptom – of our polarised politics? With guest Sílvia Majó-Vázquez, Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford.</p> <p><strong>Links</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/matthew-taylor-blog/2017/12/the-leave-case-for-a-second-referendum">The Leave case for a second referendum - Matthew Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/matthew-taylor-blog/2018/07/getting-a-second-referendum-right">Getting a second referendum right - Matthew Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/16/back-second-brexit-vote-says-conservative-mp-justine-greening">Guardian: Justine Greening endorses second Brexit referendum</a></li> <li><a href="https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-silvia-majo-vazquez">Dr Sílvia Majó-Vázquez, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism</a></li> <li><a href="https://quillette.com/2018/07/02/political-moderates-are-lying/">Quillette: Political Moderates Are Lying</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox">Abilene paradox - Wikipedia</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Twitter:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/silviamajo?lang=en">Sílvia Majó-Vázquez on Twitter</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.twitter.com/mrianleslie">Ian Leslie on Twitter</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.twitter.com/rsamatthew">Matthew Taylor on Twitter</a></li> </ul> <hr /> <p>Produced by <a href="http://www.twitter.com/jshield">James Shield</a>.</p> <p>Brought to you by the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce).</p> <p><a hre