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Self-segregation: how a personalized world is dividing Americans

15 mins | May 28, 2017
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We are immersed in personalization, filter bubbles and endless data that let’s us choose the life we want to live. By looking at two failing examples of socially-engineered diversification: the US military and elite colleges, Danah Boyd, writing in the Guardian, argues that self-segregation is dividing America.

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