Week 3/ 4/ 5 All social media notes

Media bias- widespread and systematic favouring in one position in the selection and treatment of stories.

Journalists are now more gate watchers than gatekeepers, as social media has turned everyone into journalists as anymore can say anything. 

Algorithm's become gatekeepers

Algorithm's perpetuate the status quo if the information they are given is only within the status quo

now we have human bias and technical bias