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  Echo chamber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acoustically speaking, the 'classic novel' echo chamber creates echoes in the same way as they are created in churches or caves -- they are all simply large enclosed empty spaces with floors and walls made of a hard material (such as polished stone or concrete) that reflect sound waves well.
The original echo chamber at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London was one of the first in the world to be specially built for recording purposes, when the studio was established in 1931; it remains in place and is a prime example of the early 20th-century electro-acoustic echo chamber.
Tape echo that has few repeats and a very short delay between each repeat is often referred to as 'slapback' echo; this distinctive sound is one of the key sonic characteristics of 1950s rock and roll and rockabilly, and can be heard on the classic mid-50s Sun Records recordings by Elvis Presley and others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Echo_chamber   (1610 words)

  
 Echo chamber - SourceWatch
Echo chamber is a colloquial term used to describe a group of media outlets that tend to parrot each other's uncritical reports on the views of a single source, or that otherwise relies on unquestioning repetition of official sources.
Part of the "echo chamber" effect relies not only on repeating a given stance through as many separate channels as possible, but on casting alternative sources of information and opinion as doing the same thing in the opposite direction.
Long-standing accusations of the "liberal-dominated media", suggesting that the bulk of mass media today forms some sort of liberal echo chamber, denies the idea that the reverse may in fact be the case.
www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Echo_chamber   (1630 words)

  
 Joho the Blog: BloggerCon and echo chambers
In that way a larger echo chamber, that of the nation, one borne of technology, smashed the older chambers nearly entirely.
Part of the echo chamber effect that I see in many blogs is the idea that a blog can solve all of a large organization's communications needs.
An Echo Chamber is a group that ignores other opinions to their own detriment.
www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/002450.html   (2238 words)

  
 Clippings.reblog: Echo Chamber
In the Echo Chamber world, sound is trapped in an echo.
Echo Chamber, by Chris O'Shea, is a 3D navigable soundscape that persuades people to make noises into the space and encourages the act of listening.
Each boid in the chamber is aware of where it is, to avoid the walls, to chase other sounds of the same species and avoid other boids.
uber.tv /envisioning/clippings/2005/03/005234.html   (284 words)

  
 pasta and vinegar » Echo Chamber
Echo Chamber is a world in which sound is trapped in an infinite echo.
The sounds in Echo Chamber take on a life of their own, each sound being visualised in the form of a 3D object.
Each object is known as a boid, a term for artificial intelligence algorithms that are used to describe the flocking behaviour of birds and swarming of fishes.
tecfa.unige.ch /perso/staf/nova/blog/2005/03/13/echo-chamber   (266 words)

  
 Cancel the echo chamber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In a previous tip I explained that the first thing to understand about echo is that if you hear it, the problem is on the far end.
As you may have noticed, in your vendor's equipment, the commands to configure the echo cancellers are usually applied to a specific interface, and not the entire box.
So if the source of echo is at the farthest point from the gateway, e.g.
searchopensource.techtarget.com /tip/0,289483,sid7_gci936453,00.html   (532 words)

  
 About The Echo Chamber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Echo Chamber is a 90-minute documentary project that takes a critical look at how the ABC, CBS, and NBC nightly newscasts covered the Bush Administration’s public relations campaign to sell the war in Iraq.
The Echo Chamber will show how the media’s coverage was driven by vivid imagery and entertainment rather than by information and investigative reporting.
The Echo Chamber adopts the free market, profit-driven model, therefore the film will appeal mostly to progressive and democratic registered voters.
www.kentbye.com /echo/about/about.htm   (997 words)

  
 The Echo Chamber as a Political Weapon
They use an echo chamber that consists of Fox, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, local talk show hosts, the weekly standard, the right wing half of CNN’s Crossfire-- and a slew of neocon think tank pundits who regularly get their articles published in the mainstream print media.
The themes that are covered on the most elements in the "echo chamber" would rise to the top, so the right’s attack issues and advocacy issues could be identified and strategies developed to counteract them quickly and robustly.
Of course, the power of an echo chamber is most effective, not in neutralizing the opposition's spin, but more important in getting out the spin, the ideas, the policies and positions that your own side wants to promote.
www.opednews.com /kall1203_Echo_chamber.htm   (1057 words)

  
 Rubicon: The Echo Chamber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This echo chamber of self-justification has a hallucinatory effect on the powerful, because they usually surround themselves with people who say yes.
But there's something else going on: courtiers too find themselves within the echo chamber, and they may begin to believe the truth of what they and their fellows are saying to each other.
In the echo chamber of power, the noise is so loud that "yes" is the only word you can hear.
www.robertsilvey.com /notes/2004/04/the_echo_chambe.html   (874 words)

  
 The Blogosphere: Progressive Echo Chamber?
Then the echo chamber and the RNC began to press mainstream outlets on why they were not covering the story, with the perennial charges of liberal media bias at least on the tip of their tongues.
This marks the first difference between the Republican echo chamber and the blogosphere, since bloggers rely almost exclusively on well established, credible sources for their information.
What elevates the blogosphere from top-notch media filter to bona fide echo chamber is the vast web connecting the different bloggers of reciprocation links in which they provide links to each other, and by linking to specific posts with additional information or analysis or even just to spread the word of a particularly good find.
www.opednews.com /lee_0104_blogosphere.htm   (2116 words)

  
 Pacific Views: Whose Echo Chamber?
Furthermore, I can identify a real echo chamber that is much worse and that has much more influence than the blogging world can hope to have: the beltway journalists.
I was so frustrated with the supposedly reasonable beltway pundits because they really were blind to all the contradictory evidence and just believed that it was important to "trust" the President because he would never use this emergency for his own political purposes.
Bill Keller, currently chief editor of the New York Times, was definitely more influenced by his own echo chamber than someone like me who was reading more than just one paper (and not just the American press) and who was reading points of view that did not just reflect the beltway thinking.
www.pacificviews.org /archives/000662.html   (786 words)

  
 HARMONICATS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He figured that if the boys played into a wall the sound would be reflected into the mic; that it would be the echo -- not the music itself -- which would be recorded.
The echo chamber technique of recording, incidentally, is being used extensively by other record companies, now.
Murad, leader of the trio, was born in Constantinople, Turkey of Armenian parentage.
www.harmonicats.com /mlwkjrnl.htm   (1100 words)

  
 blogs | Echo Chamber Project
Here is the third Echo Chamber Project video blog entry featuring some interviews from the We Media Conference.
We interviewed two research fellows for The Echo Chamber Project, and I can say that they see our history through the lens of the public documents that the government doesn't want the general public to know about.
Not only does it does is waive the $695 fee, but more importantly the American Press Institute's Media Center will be publishing a statement from me about my project on their website as one of the 15 fellowship recipients.
www.echochamberproject.com /blog   (1642 words)

  
 we make money not art: Echo Chamber
Sound is spatially positioned around the user using a multiple speaker system, as if the sounds were moving around the physical space.
Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire.
And where there is no Echo there is no description of...
www.we-make-money-not-art.com /archives/004775.php   (285 words)

  
 Through the Echo Chamber
The lyrics, Tom Green-like in their sophomoric simplicity, are just the kind of stuff you’d expect from a band that’s made a habit of making a spectacle of itself.
They won’t let anything out of the bag, but The Echo Orbiter assures me they have something even better up their sleeve for this year’s festival.
While Justin extols the virtues of Yuengling during his moment of alcohol-fueled inspiration, bassist Colin Emerle gets serious, if just for a minute, to talk about the record the band is currently putting the finishing touches on.
www.citypaper.net /articles/060100/mus.echo.shtml   (864 words)

  
 What Echo Chamber? | Personal Democracy Forum
Millions of people aren't using the Internet simply to listen to "louder echoes of their own voices," as he wrote in his book Republic.com.
Indeed, the very act of linking, even when done as part of an attack on something you disagree with, has the effect of inviting the reader to go discover for themselves what that opposing viewpoint may be.
Dave had an excellent article in Salon earlier this year dismantling the echo chamber argument.
www.personaldemocracy.com /node/view/69   (428 words)

  
 The NarcoSphere || Venezuela's Private Media and Pollsters: An Echo Chamber that Would Make Goebbels Proud
Venezuela’s private media have essentially become a vast echo chamber, where debate is limited to tactical questions of how best to extinguish the threat to dominant class interests.
As they vigilantly bar their ideological competitors from their vast echo chamber, their capacity to rationally engage their political foes begins to atrophy.
Their growing intolerance of dissenting views --combined with their delusions that their influential roles are somehow based on the merits of their ideas rather than on their subservience to economic power-- leads them to become intellectually lazy.
narcosphere.narconews.com /story/2004/6/29/16451/4880   (1991 words)

  
 (GC3502) The Echo Chamber by ShadowSeekers and Seekette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As we sat down on the wall, we watched a woman explain to some other tourists about the echo chamber, and saw their reactions on their faces when they tried it, so we just had to try it too, and all I got to say is "WOW".
A local was there demonstrating the echo chamber to his baby in a stroller.
The echo chamber was pretty cool - my kids spent a few minutes exploring how sound travels and how they could sit on opposite sides and still hear each other whisper.
www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC3502&log=y   (5843 words)

  
 Echo Chamber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Eddie, Erris, and a childhood friend formed Echo Chamber in 1991.
After several bassists came and went, Chris joined the band in 1992.
With their self-titled CD now released, Echo Chamber is hoping for good things in the near future.
www.echochamber.net /band.html   (114 words)

  
 On The Media-- Wordwatch: Echo Chamber
Last month the news resounded with talk of "echo chambers." According to the political newsletter Roll Call, a conference call of GOP lobbyists was hastily convened by the Republican National Committee to disseminate talking points in support of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.
Sometimes, and it might be a little more interesting, the echo chamber is narrower to some part of the citizenry.
And there's a kind of obligation for citizens to leave their echo chambers, at least some of the time, and seek out dissenting opinions.
www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_080505_wordwatch.html   (747 words)

  
 echo chamber - Definition of echo chamber - echo chamber in Encyclopedia - DictionaryWords.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
echo chamber - Definition of echo chamber - echo chamber in Encyclopedia - DictionaryWords.net
--- [from gcide] --- :echo chamber \ech"o cham"ber\, n.
(Music, broadcasting) : A room with walls that resonate sound, producing audible echoes; it is used especially to create special sound effects in recording music.
www.dictionarywords.net /find/word/echo%20chamber   (48 words)

  
 Joho the Blog: Salon article on echo chambers
Salon this morning is running an article of mine about the "echo chamber" meme, i.e., the idea that the Net encourages members of groups to listen only to their own opinions.
The mass media are an echo chamber of one sort--they repeat what each other say.
Online communities are echo chambers of another sort--they repeat what their members say.
www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/002445.html   (1003 words)

  
 Direct: Echo Chamber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The DMA diamond Echo, which goes to the top direct response campaign among all entries, went to the gold winner for television commercial: The Martin Agency's "The Sensible Alternative" campaign for its longtime client, Geico Direct auto insurance of Washington, DC.
The winner of the Leonard J. Raymond Collegiate Echo competition, sponsored by BankOne, was the team from the State University of New York's Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome, Boonville, NY.
Personally, we liked the sword-fighting games, but we suspect the Echo awards committee took more notice of the 260,000 opt-in names generated for the studio's database.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3815/is_15_11/ai_57888567   (592 words)

  
 PSW Recording Forums: Fletcher => Home made echo/reverb chamber
I have created room "chambers" with the live room of my studio using a PA and a mic or two.
An old friend of mine owned part of a studio in Hollywood that had an echo chamber built in under the floor of the tracking room 40-60' thay had 12 mics in that space, he would record all of his reverbs then take them with him to mix !!
In my commercial studio, there were two "echo chambers" upstairs, that for all the years I've been there were just used to store old, unused equipment.
recforums.prosoundweb.com /index.php/t/2633/0   (1962 words)

  
 mikechampion's weblog : "SOAP is Dead" -- if you believe the echo chamber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This is something of a followup to my post on the XML Team weblog last week, taking into consideration some of the feedback.
I'm getting just a wee bit annoyed about the echo chamber repeating "SOAP is dead" to itself around the blogosphere, with nobody adding any actual evidence other than the success of various Web applications built mainly with HTTP.
I am probably going to floor you by saying that I agree with your contention that SOAP is far from dead and that the naysayers may be way premature in saying so.
blogs.msdn.com /mikechampion/archive/2005/02/20/376975.aspx   (2544 words)

  
 echo chamber : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
echo chamber : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com
1 definition found echo chamber - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : echo chamber \ech"o cham"ber\, n.
(Music, broadcasting) A room with walls that resonate sound, producing audible echoes; it is used especially to create special sound effects in recording music.
onlinedictionary.datasegment.com /word/echo+chamber   (52 words)

  
 Loose Democracy: The real echo chamber
I've worked for a few days on a long posting about why the "echo chamber" meme is deeply flawed.
The echo chamber meme distracts us from the true echo chamber: The constellation of media, especially in the US.
The "echo chamber" meme, by implying that the Net really isn't diverse, plays into the hands of those who are ready to misconstrue the Net in order to control it.
www.corante.com /loose/archives/001776.html   (2161 words)

  
 Echo Chamber Project | Open Source Documentary on how the ABC, CBS and NBC nightly news casts became an Echo Chamber to ...
The Echo Chamber Project is an open source, investigative documentary about the how the television news media became an uncritical echo chamber to the Executive Branch leading up to the war in Iraq.
The Echo Chamber is a documentary on the failures of the mainstream media, and how I produce this film will hopefully provide some solutions to this infotainment bottleneck.
Echo Chamber Project Vlog Episode 2: Media and Politics
www.echochamberproject.com   (1014 words)

  
 Echo Chamber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
** An "echo chamber" is a dedicated, bare walled room with speakers and mics installed at various points.
Artificial echo devices use coil springs, metal plates tape loops and even drums spinning in oil.
Hi there, I like to build some echo chambers and try to find parts and schematics of various models.
www.seriousliving.net /new-1932084-83.html   (2955 words)

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