Author and Activist
Eli Pariser is an American author, activist, and entrepreneur who co-founded Upworthy and served as executive director of MoveOn.org. His bestselling book The Filter Bubble introduced the concept of algorithmically curated content and its implications for democracy and public discourse.
by Eli Pariser
Pariser reveals how personalization algorithms on Google, Facebook, and other platforms create invisible 'filter bubbles' that isolate users in ideological echo chambers. He demonstrates how algorithmic curation narrows our worldview without our awareness, threatening informed citizenship and democratic deliberation.
The books Eli Pariser references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Tim Wu
Wu traces a recurring cycle in information industries: open systems get consolidated by monopolists, then disrupted again. From telephone to internet, the pattern threatens every medium.
by Richard Thaler
Thaler and Sunstein argue that small changes in how choices are presented, nudges, can dramatically improve decisions without restricting freedom. Choice architecture is a powerful tool for public policy and beyond.
by Daniel Kahneman
Kahneman reveals that our minds run on two systems: fast intuition and slow deliberation. Most errors in judgement come from trusting System 1 when the situation demands System 2's careful analysis.
by Don Norman
Norman reveals why badly designed objects frustrate us and how good design makes correct use intuitive. The principles, affordances, feedback, constraints, apply far beyond physical products.
Who Eli draws from, and who draws from Eli — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.