Meaning of echo chamber | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A room or other enclosed space that is highly conducive to the production of echoes, particularly one that has been designed and built for this purpose.
2. A sound effect that may be applied to live or recorded sounds through a sound editing process, which creates the impression that the sounds originated in an enclosed space which was conducive to producing echoes or echoing.
3. An environment in which a person is exposed to only those beliefs and opinions that agree with their own, so that their existing views are magnified and reinforced while alternative ideas are not expressed or considered.
   broadly, figuratively

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Examples

“But it would resound in the conservative media's echo chamber.”

““What you’re going to end up doing is amplifying within an echo chamber, which is really different from what the movement wants,” said Dana Fisher, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland whose research focuses on activism.”

“The videos were tailored for the “echo chamber” that is often created by social media networks like YouTube. To keep you watching, YouTube serves up videos similar to those you have watched before.”

“But she [Erika Kirk] said that her husband loved a good debate, and she promised attendees that they would hear ideas at the event that they might not agree with. “AmFest is not about echo chambers,” she said.”

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