Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser ( born December 17, 1980 in Lincolnville (Maine) ) is the former Executive Director of MoveOn.org and current Board President of this organization.

Life

He was known as a political activist, as he and sophomore David H. Pickering organized an online petition for a non-military response to the attacks of September 11. He helped at the time to draw up the program of the non-commercial organization More Than Money. In less than a month, more than a million people had signed the petition. In November of the same year asked the founder of Moveon.org, Wes Boyd and Joan Blades Paris to join the organization.

During the presidential election campaign in 2004 organized the Paris Video Clip Competition Bush in 30 Seconds and so helped raise more than $ 30 million dollars in campaign contributions. The funds were used to support progressive candidates and those of the Democrats. In an article for the New York Times Magazine, journalist George Packer referred to MoveOn as the mainstream element within the fastest-growing protest movement in American history.

When research on the Internet found Paris, that when looking using search engines different results can be seen, these are based on the previously made ​​searches. People with more liberal orientation get different search results than conservatives when they use when searching the Internet using a particular search term, Google, Facebook or Yahoo. So, for example, gets under circumstances a liberal in the search for " BP " Results for oil pollution in the Gulf of Mexico, while the Conservatives information about the company to investors receive. Further, because of this facts in Paris the term " filter bubble ", which is also the title of his book, in which he points out the danger that people will no longer be confronted with other perspectives than their own.

Works

  • The Filter Bubble: What The Internet Is Hiding From You. Penguin Press Limited, New York 2011, ISBN 9781594203008 Filter Bubble. As we are incapacitated on the internet. From the American hero of Ursula. Hanser, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-43034-1 Thomas Thiel: Eli Pariser: "Filter Bubble " in the network is already waiting for the all-powerful double. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 7, 2012
  • January Füchtjohann: bladder weakness. Review in: Süddeutsche Zeitung. March 8, 2012, page 11 (PDF)
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