Why is the World Wide Web Tearing Us Apart?

The hope of the World Wide Web was to bring us closer together, but its instead driving us apart into increasingly small and angry splinter groups. While many have blamed online echo chambers, these concepts have been disproved by a number of studies.

Dana McKay, author of 2022 study Turn and Face the Strange: Investigating Filter Bubble Bursting Information Interactions and Associate Dean in Interaction, Technology and Information at RMIT University, alongside George Buchanan, Deputy Dean in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University, joined Jack Gembitsky on the Thursday Daily to talk about the new information gained during that time, and how to make the internet a better place.

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The world wide web was meant to unite us, but is tearing us apart instead. Is there another way?

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