Speculative Design
Echosphere visualizes the "Echo Chamber" effect, showing what a colonized mind looks like when trapped inside one through nonstop social media use. It immerses users in everyday posts, images, and hashtags, revealing how constant scrolling shapes our thoughts, reinforces echo chambers, and alters our perception of the world.
Echosphere visualizes the "Echo Chamber" effect, showing what a colonized mind looks like when trapped inside one through nonstop social media use. It immerses users in everyday posts, images, and hashtags, revealing how constant scrolling shapes our thoughts, reinforces echo chambers, and alters our perception of the world.
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It has been integrated as a built-in feature on phones, functioning like an app, where you can connect the social media platform you feel is negatively impacting your mind.
After connecting your social media, it generates a personalized "echo chamber" based on your activity. It analyzes the app's algorithms and creates a focused environment that highlights issues, essentially uncovering what went wrong and identifying the aspects that negatively affect you.
The next steps include potential features that could be integrated into this technology to mitigate negative effects, such as offering options to seek help or completely reset social media settings.
How I came up with this idea:
I began by exploring social media dependency—what it is and why it happens. From there, I encountered the concept of mental colonization, which ultimately led to the echo chamber.