MEDIA BUBBLE Definition & Meaning

media bubble

[ mee-dee-uh buhb-uhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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: college campuses that foster an antiestablishment media bubble;
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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Origin of media bubble¹

First recorded in 1970–75

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The Democrats keep taking the bait, and the liberal social media bubble swells with indignation — Can you believe he said it again?!

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The only problem — and only a problem to those outside the right-wing media bubble — is that none of this is true.

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What is clear is that Imran Khan's PTI party has proved that its popularity is not a social media bubble, but has a real and committed support base.

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But most aren't inside the right-wing media bubble.

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If you're inside the liberal news media bubble, you've been told regularly how Team Biden and the Inflation Reduction Act are lowering the cost of insulin and 10 other widely-used medications.

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