Show Me Your Echo Chamber
What world do you wake up to each morning? Not the physical world, but the digital one. The carefully curated feed of posts, news, and recommendations that greets you when you open your phone. What makes up the reality you scroll through each day.
This participatory event invites us to do something radical: share our screens with each other.
In a group we'll view each other's social media feeds (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter/X) and witness firsthand the remarkably different informational universes we each inhabit.
What one person sees as "the news," another may never encounter. What appears "trending" or "recommended" to you may be invisible to the person sitting beside you.
What to bring: your mobile device
When: March 10th @ 6PM
Where: Lobby of 585 Dundas St E, Toronto, ON M5A 2B7
Cost: FREE
Through guided reflection and compassionate inquiry, we'll explore:
The Algorithmic Mirror: How recommendation algorithms create personalized "filter bubbles" that shape what we see, reinforcing our existing beliefs and potentially limiting exposure to diverse perspectives.
Reality by Design: The ways in which algorithmic curation constructs our sense of what's happening in the world, what's important, and what's "normal". Often without our conscious awareness.
Collective Media Literacy: By comparing our feeds side-by-side, we can develop what researchers call "algorithmic awareness", understanding how these systems work and recognizing their influence on our daily information consumption.
From Isolation to Insight: Moving beyond individual critique to collective understanding, discovering how our different algorithmic realities both separate and can reconnect us.
The event creates space for genuine curiosity: What does your feed tell you about the world? What's missing from mine? How do our algorithms shape not just what we know, but how we see reality itself? Together, we'll gently examine how what feels like our window onto the world might actually be a carefully constructed mirror, and what we might see when we look through each other's windows instead.
The image for this event is from this article.
FAQs:
Q1: Do I need to be a certain type of person to join this event?
A1: No, although we prefer people who are kind, open, and nuanced in their approach when meeting new people. As well as people who ask questions in good faith rather than leading with assumptions. If this sounds like you, we’d love to have you.
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We hope to see you soon! Take care.