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In an article in Salon in February, I disputed the idea that the Net consists of echo chambers:

...Even if I spend most of my online time in my echo chamber of choice, the minority of my time may bring me into contact with a more diverse range of opinions than I would have encountered without the Net. That seems to me to be the relevant statistic, however elusive it might be.

Micah Sifry at the new Personal Democracy Forum cites a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project that says: "Wired Americans are more aware than non-internet users of all kinds of arguments, even those that challenge their preferred candidates and issue positions."