Editing Daily Me

{{Short description|Term for an on-line personal daily newspaper}}
{{Update|date=May 2021|reason=The examples of personalized news sources provided in the last paragraph are out of date (Zite, for example, shut down in 2015), and there are more recent/current examples that could be added.}}

'''Daily Me''' is a term that describes a virtual daily newspaper customized for an individual's tastes. This term was popularized by [[MIT Media Lab]] founder [[Nicholas Negroponte]]. The term has also been associated with the phenomenon of individuals customizing and personalizing their news feeds, resulting in their being exposed only to content they are already inclined to agree with.

The '''Daily Me''' is a term popularized by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte to describe a virtual daily newspaper customized for an individual's tastes. Negroponte discusses it in his 1995 book, ''[[Being Digital]]'', referencing a project under way at the Media Lab, ''Fishwrap''. Designed by [[Pascal Chesnais]] and [[Walter Bender]] and implemented by Media Lab students, the system allowed a greater deal of customization than commercially available systems in 1997.<ref>{{cite journal | title = The Daily Me | first = Christopher | last = Harper | journal = [[American Journalism Review]] | url = http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=268 | date = April 1997 | access-date = 2009-01-13 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090328114708/http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=268 | archive-date = 2009-03-28 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

Fred Hapgood, in a 1995 article in [[Wired magazine|''Wired'']], credited the concept and phrase to Negroponte's thinking in the 1970s.<ref>{{cite magazine | url = https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.11/media.html | title = The Media Lab at 10 | magazine = [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] | first = Fred | last = Hapgood | issue = 11 |date=November 1995| volume = 3 }}</ref>

In [[Steven Berlin Johnson|Steven Johnson]]'s book ''[[Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software]]'', which concerns [[emergent properties]], Johnson addresses some of Negroponte's fears with homeostasis and feedback systems in mind.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}} He argues that a newspaper tailored to the tastes of a person on a given day will lead to too much [[positive feedback]] in that direction, and people's choices for one day would permanently affect their viewings for the rest of their lives. Since the book's release, in 2001, many customer-oriented websites, such as [[Amazon.com]] and [[Half.com]], regularly utilize a customer's past views and purchases to determine what merchandise they believe will entice the customer's interest.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}}

The term has also been associated with the phenomenon of individuals customizing and personalizing their news feeds, resulting in their being exposed only to content they are already inclined to agree with. The Daily Me can thus be a critical component of the [[Echo chamber (media)|"echo chamber" effect]], defined in an article in [[Salon.com|''Salon'']] by [[David Weinberger]] as "those Internet spaces where like-minded people listen only to those people who already agree with them."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/02/20/echo_chamber/ | title = Is there an echo in here? | first = David | last = Weinberger | work = [[Salon.com]] | date = 20 February 2004}}</ref>

[[Cass Sunstein]], a law professor at the [[University of Chicago]], analyzes the implications of the Daily Me in his book ''Republic.com''.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}} Daily me and [[Echo chamber (media)|echo chambers]] have been suggested as one of the extremes of society induced by technology, the other being [[Tyranny of the majority]].<ref>{{cite journal | title = Trust metrics on controversial users: balancing between tyranny of the majority and echo chambers | first1 = Paolo | last1 = Massa | first2 = Paolo | last2 = Avesani | issue = Special Issue on Semantics of People and Culture | journal = [[International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems]] | year = 2007 | doi = 10.4018/jswis.2007010103 | url = http://www.gnuband.org/papers/trust_metrics_on_controversial_users_balancing_between_tyranny_of_the_majority_and_echo_chambers-2/| url-access = subscription }}</ref>

[[Zite (app)|Zite]] was a popular application that was similar to the Daily Me concept. It was available on [[iOS]], [[Android (operating system)|Android]], and [[Windows Phone]]. FeedSavvy.com is a similar service available on the web for PC and Mac users. {{proper name|[[noosfeer]]}} is addressing this issue by letting the users explore subjects with a wider range in the results, avoiding the filter bubble effect.

==See also==
*[[Collaborative filtering]]
*[[Filter bubble]]
*[[Recommendation system]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/opinion/19kristof.html?ref=opinion The Daily Me, by Nicholas Kristof]. The New York Times. March 18, 2009. Retrieved May 3, 2010.

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