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Eli Pariser
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Eli Pariser is an author, activist, and entrepreneur whose work examines internet personalization and how technology and media can serve democracy.
Biography
Eli Pariser is an author, activist, and entrepreneur focused on how technology and media can serve democracy. He became executive director of MoveOn.org in 2004, where he helped develop online citizen engagement practices. He also co-founded Upworthy, a website for meaningful viral content, and Avaaz, a global citizen organization.
His bestselling book, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You, introduced the term “filter bubble” to wider usage. The book examines how personalized internet services can narrow the information people encounter, with implications for creativity and democratic exchange. Pariser is an Omidyar Fellow at New America and co-directs New_ Public.
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Books by Eli Pariser
The Filter Bubble
The Filter Bubble examines how internet personalization creates individual information environments based on users’ data and past interests. It argues that invisible filters can reinforce existing beliefs and limit unexpected encounters that support creativity, innovation, and democratic exchange.