Whether or not voters can be manipulated en masse via the medium of targeted ads, the act of targeting itself certainly has an impact — by fragmenting the shared public sphere which civilized societies rely on to drive consensus and compromise.
In truth, social media is not a telescopic lens — as the telephone actually was — but an opinion-fracturing prism that shatters social cohesion by replacing a shared public sphere and its dynamically overlapping discourse with a wall of increasingly concentrated filter bubbles.
The notion of intercultural contact or interaction is conceptually distinct from the broader notion of intercultural dialogue, which normally refers to the societal process by which ideas, values and practices emerging from different traditions adjust to one another and negotiate their expression within a shared public sphere.
Seismic shifts at every level, from one more personal than you can even imagine and at the same time on this wider shared political sphere.
It's also worth noting that during a recent presentation Google's lead user-experience researcher Paul Adams detailed a sharing model that shares similarities with The Fridge, where different content is shared with different spheres of your friends.
The app, which is actually an update and rebrand of Google's older "Photo Sphere Camera," combines the same feature set that was available previously, which included the ability to create panoramic "photo spheres" and share them back to Google Maps, along with new features, like an improved ability to explore photo spheres shared by others as well as browse through Google Street View collections.
The app, which is actually an update and rebrand of Google's older "Photo Sphere Camera," combines the same feature set that was available previously, which included the ability to create panoramic "photo spheres" and share them back to Google Maps, along with new features, like an improved ability to explore photo spheres shared by others as well as browse through Google Street View collections.
In all cultures studied by immunocytochemistry, cell-forming spheres shared markers with human fetal neural stem cells (Figure 3).
It is also clear that, on reflection, defiant humanism must share its sphere with the Crow.
Great big new companies such as Airbnb and summon-a-driver services Uber and Lyft are making a controversial name for themselves in many countries in this sharing economy sphere.
In a recent post, I talked about some of the problems that remain in a specific (and familiar) part of the content-sharing sphere: file-sharing.
