echo chamber
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈɛkoʊ ˈtʃeɪmbər/
- Specialized
:
cámara de eco
- The musician recorded her latest album in a specialized echo chamber to enhance the sound quality.
What kind of speaker or speakers would be in the echo chamber playing the music?
- What kind of speaker or speakers would be in the echo chamber playing the music?
Examples
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His name rang throughout the vast echo chamber of the Internet, and he even served up a minor hit in "Brooklyn Girls."
Blog text (11) -
As a result of the internet communication between participants in this campaign, charges by one of the participants have been quickly transmitted to others, creating an echo chamber of counterclaims made in opposition to the mainstream scientific view of climate change.
Blog text (32) -
The room's like an echo chamber.
Fiction book (1996) -
Now you know the definition of an echo chamber.
Blog text (30) -
What kind of speaker or speakers would be in the echo chamber playing the music?
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A giant echo chamber and loft living are nice when you are in an actual small space in the city.
Blog text (11) -
It only reverberates in the echo chamber of conservative blogs and sites.
Blog text (32) -
Neandertal palates were a lot lower than ours, so they didn't have a good echo chamber for projection.
Blog text (11) -
"I found it soothing after the hubbub of wind, props, and banter in the echo chamber of the plane's fuselage.
Academic text (2011) -
Having decided that the founding fathers had a tacit necessity for any citizen to be sufficiently informed on a range of issues, Sunstein makes the case that nowadays, each of us can stick ourselves in a media echo chamber and thus fail to be fully informed.
Blog text (32)
Synonyms
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7.6
A hollow space that makes sound or microwaves stronger, like inside a guitar and microwave oven
How Reverberant
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase maps the concrete meanings 'echo' (repetition) and 'chamber' (enclosed space) onto a social situation, so the idea of ideas/opinions being repeated in a closed environment is fairly accessible. Because it requires a figurative/metaphorical transfer from sound to beliefs rather than a strictly literal composition, a B1 learner may grasp the gist but might not predict the exact social meaning without some exposure.
Etymology
Echo chamber comes from a real room used to make sound bounce and repeat, a loud chamber where sounds echo again and again. So, it means a place that makes sound repeat.