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4 Geo. L. Tech. Rev. 399 (2019-2020)
How the Internet Created Multiple Publics

handle is hein.journals/gtltr4 and id is 421 raw text is: GEORGETOWN LAW TECHNOLOGY REVIEW HOW THE INTERNET CREATED MULTIPLE PUBLICS Lam Thuy Vo* CITE AS: 4 GEO. L. TECH. REV. 399 (2020) TABLE OF CONTENTS I. IN TR O D U C T IO N ................................................................................... 3 9 9 II. INFORMATION SEGREGATION THROUGH ALGORITHMS....................... 400 III. ALGORITHMIC SELECTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION....... 402 IV. CONSTANTLY CONTEXTUALIZED INFORMATION AND POLITICALLY PERFORMATIVE CONTENT CONSUMPTION ................................................... 408 V. A SHIFT OF WHAT IS POLITICALLY ACCEPTABLE ............................... 410 I. INTRODUCTION Political identification in the digital age has shifted online: increasingly, people define their political identity in how they come together around issues and news events on the social web. We adopt online political identities in three major ways: through shared consumption of information on social media platforms; through participation in political movements through hashtags and around news events; or through performance of our political identity via virtue signaling on the Internet. From the alt-right to Bernie bros, online communities coalesce around news articles and other information that allows them to express their political affiliations through the content they read, react to, and share. And through this consumption of similar information, they form little political information universes often referred to as media ecosystems. * Lam Thuy Vo is a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News where she digs into data to examine how systems and policies affect individuals. She has an expertise in mining and analyzing data from the social web and is currently a visiting researcher for the Technology and Social Change Project at the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. In 2019, she published a book, Mining Social Media, about her empirical approach to examining data from the Internet with No Starch Press. i See Carolyn E. Schmitt, 'Network Propaganda' Explored, HARVARD GAZETTE (Oct. 25,

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