The population percentage of Chileans with Access to the internet is rising, thus may hinder the current correlation between social class, income, location, and filter bubbles of media. [Figure 2]
![A recent study surveying Chilean adolescents showed that the kind of school adolescents attended determined their news gathering habits. Municipal school students most commonly received their news via Facebook and cable television, while students attending private schools more often received news through direct news websites. [1] Cable television is standardly regulated and can have a degree of news filter, since it caters strictly towards Chileans watching it. With Internet access, however, Chileans have a far broader array of news websites around the globe to read. This creates differences in the manner, degree of detail, and even bias in the media that each student is consuming. Similarly, with Facebook, and other social media, there is a large filter to received news as well. Chileans who share news articles on Facebook primarily do it based on their beliefs and opinions- As in, the believe it to be important enough to share and they only share articles and stories which prove their beliefs and perceptions to be correct. User can hand-pick certain articles out of the vast number of story articles online, catering to their personal perceptions. If a person were to limit their news intake to simply Facebook, their filter would be a very thick one, presumably. They would likely receive misinterpreted details, or heavily biased approached which can leave out or skew important aspects of the story. Thus, adolescents attending municipal schools have a heavier filter bubble than Private school adolescents. The common difference between the two groups of adolescents attending both schools is the class of family they come from. Private school can mainly only be afforded by middle and upper middle class families. This can put in place a certain knowledge monopoly. If these adolescents' media habits continue steadily into their adulthood, than this shows that wealthier, more higher class Chileans will continue to have knowledge monopolies over the lower class, due to the quality and weaker filter bubble surrounding their news. The only factor that could weaken this filter gap in years to come would be1 the growing amount of common access for Chileans to the internet. As the Internet will continue to submerge deeper into Chile's society, and the country's IT compatibility and resources grow, there will be less of a correlation between income or social class and internet access. This will then give more lower class Chileans the option to seek their news online, allowing them equal access to quality global reporting.](images/u1721-19.png)
