On Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and the Possibility of Education

Abstract

In the light of changes caused by digital media, some media scientists are speaking of an "epocal" or "structural break" leading to a challenge for education. Using the examples of so-called filter bubbles and echo chambers, this article shows that digitalization reveals some well known problems in new clothes and thereby offers them a new topicality. The present article calls attention to specific limits of the media studies’ viewpoint (1), it shows what contribution philosophy can bring to the mentioned problems (2), it connects the approaches of media studies and philosophy (3), and it draws some did actical conclusions (4).