What you call "unbundling and re-bundling" sounds pretty similar to how Azuma described the activity of Japanese Otaku consuming anime/manga/etc. media in "Japan's Database Animals". He called it "taking apart" and "collecting". With the collapse of grand narratives and the rise of the internet we now pick and choose features from small narratives as we please to produce not something that is "true" or "good" but something "true to us" or "pleasing"-- the "database mode of consumption".
Wouldn't what you're calling "echo chambers" more accurately qualify as "epistemic bubbles" (i.e. lack of diversity and clustering, but not necessarily self-contained ideological communities that sanction dissenters and outgroups)? Per C. Thi Nguyen's distinction:
Not to take away from the other important things you're saying here, but maybe it could help reduce confusion around the term to have that working distinction.
What you call "unbundling and re-bundling" sounds pretty similar to how Azuma described the activity of Japanese Otaku consuming anime/manga/etc. media in "Japan's Database Animals". He called it "taking apart" and "collecting". With the collapse of grand narratives and the rise of the internet we now pick and choose features from small narratives as we please to produce not something that is "true" or "good" but something "true to us" or "pleasing"-- the "database mode of consumption".
Wouldn't what you're calling "echo chambers" more accurately qualify as "epistemic bubbles" (i.e. lack of diversity and clustering, but not necessarily self-contained ideological communities that sanction dissenters and outgroups)? Per C. Thi Nguyen's distinction:
https://philarchive.org/rec/NGUECA
Not to take away from the other important things you're saying here, but maybe it could help reduce confusion around the term to have that working distinction.
I think that's a helpful distinction too -- generally, I think more work thinking about what these metaphors mean is always good!