media bubble

[ mee-dee-uh-buhb-uhl ]

/ ˈmi di ə ˌbʌb əl /

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noun

an environment in which one’s exposure to news, entertainment, social media, etc., represents only one ideological or cultural perspective and excludes or misrepresents other points of view: voters living in a left-wing media bubble;college campuses that foster an antiestablishment media bubble;Blockbuster superhero films dominated the media bubble last summer.

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Also called information bubble .

Origin of media bubble

First recorded in 1970–75

Words nearby media bubble

medfly, Medford, Med. Gr., media, Media Atropatene, media bubble, media center, mediacy, mediad, mediaeval, media event

How to use media bubble in a sentence

Then came questions centered mostly on asking Johnson to riff on various issues of concern within the right-wing media bubble.
Meanwhile, here’s the nonsense Ron Johnson and Maria Bartiromo are saying about the pandemic|Philip Bump|October 18, 2021|Washington Post
It has no apparent interest in moving on from the former president or living outside the right-wing media bubble.
Stop trying to save the GOP. It’s hopeless.|Jennifer Rubin|February 12, 2021|Washington Post
In 2011 LGBT media outlet Queerty took the app to task for allegedly deleting accounts that made reference to being trans.
Grindr’s Trans Dating Problem|David Levesley|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Much of the media coverage around eating disorders surrounds celebrities and models.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Unconfirmed reports in the French media claimed that the brothers were spotted at a gas station in northern France on Thursday.
France Mourns—and Hunts|Nico Hines, Christopher Dickey|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Duke was a state representative whose neo-Nazi alliances were disgorged in media reports during his run for governor in 1991.
The Price of Steve Scalise’s Silence|Jason Berry|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The media tend to frame situations like this as aberrations, but in this case, quite the opposite is the truth.
Today’s GOP: Still Cool With Racist Pandering?|Michael Tomasky|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It is especially useful with cultures upon serum media, but is applicable also to the sputum.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Or turn from the gray officials to the purple citizens of the soap bubble commonwealth of socialism.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The gonococcus is distinguished by its failure to grow upon ordinary media.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
By far the most frequent exciting causes of acute otitis media are the pneumococcus and the streptococcus.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Violet laid the tin plate over the top for a cover, and they all stood by to hear the first bubble.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner