echo chamber

[ek-oh cheym-ber]

noun

1. a room or other enclosed space that amplifies and reflects sound, generally used for broadcasting or recording echos or hollow sound effects: The hallway is a giant echo chamber.

   an open-air echo chamber;

   The hallway is a giant echo chamber.

2. an environment in which the same opinions are repeatedly voiced and promoted, so that people are not exposed to opposing views: We need to move beyond the echo chamber of our network to understand diverse perspectives.

   an online echo chamber;

   We need to move beyond the echo chamber of our network to understand diverse perspectives.

echo chamber

noun

1. Also called: reverberation chamber. a room with walls that reflect sound. It is used to make acoustic measurements and as a source of reverberant sound to be mixed with direct sound for recording or broadcasting

Word History and Origins

Origin of echo chamber¹

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40

Example Sentences

“Social media really connected people who are anti-vax and created an echo chamber.”

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Rarely is the ridiculous performance revealed to their own echo chamber.

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Pro-government media, social media, and nationwide billboards then act as an echo chamber for these messages.

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The Republicans and the right-wing disinformation machine and echo chamber have spent decades branding the Democrats in that way.

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But the social isolation in combination with the social media echo chamber increases a given person's radicalization and extremism.

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