mcarcasson.bsky.social
Professor of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. I direct the CSU Center for Public Deliberation (www.cpd.colostate.edu), which is a nonpartisan organization focused on improving the quality of public discussion and local problem-solving.
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Did it cite studies that don't exist?
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Article that I am pulling the term from is here, from @debilyn.bsky.social thefulcrum.us/money-politi...
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Here is how I see our current challenge (your point fits with information disorder, which combines overwhelming information overload with a crippled ability to process it and make important distinctions btw spectacle and substance).
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Briand's Practical Politics provided an early blueprint for the CPD.
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One of the most important books during grad school for me was Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s The New Rhetoric. It taught me how to think more deeply about values and their role in individual & community decision making (early seeds that led to all my work on wicked problems & polarity management)
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You may need to round up the Newies for another fight.
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Seems like it’s trolling to see the “libs” freak out (and often a red herring to distract from other things). Freaking out on it helps it serve its purpose (just like his rally). Horrible that trolling is a governing model, but that is where we are.
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So when efforts at managing misinformation involvedcensorship (deleting/not allowing certain opinions), I can see problems there. But seems like most efforts (like what Facebook was doing) was providing counterspeech, which should be strongly supported. Free speech cannot be free from criticism.
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I see it primarily as the conflating of censorship and criticism. Censorship (not allowing certain ideas to be expressed) is very often bad, but criticism (pushing back on ideas) is important, particularly to deal with the bad information that gets through because of free speech.
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Conversation around this vinn diagram.
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Most importantly, as his excellent book argued, the need to get away from the Two Party Doom Loop. leedrutman.org/breaking-the...
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The question for democracy & climate is will that long term advantage be realized in time.
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The way I've put this is that reality/truth doesn't have nearly the persuasive advantage many assume (a good story can easily dominate high quality facts), but reallty/truth has the long term advantage of not going away very easily....
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So the governing version of horserace election coverage?
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it is a huge problem with our system. We elect people that are good at campaigning (which primarily involves making big promises about simple solutions and/or blaming the other side), but horrible at governing (which involves collaboration, addressing complexitiy, & compromise). Trump especially.
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Happy to help if I can. Currently working on additional material building on the article.
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Have you read Rauch's Constitution of Knowledge? Would really be curious about your take on it.
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Yes, and that kindness is a positive trait (my wife always loves the scene of the mother protecting the son's impulse to be kind to his opponents), and the need to negotiate the interesting tension between the influences of the coach and the Fishburne character
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Searching for Bobby Fischer.
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So many people love the Margaret Mead quote about a small group of people changing the world. Always seemed odd to me that everyone seems to assume those changes would be good. I guess they focus on the “thoughtful”? www.brainyquote.com/photos_tr/en...
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Short summary - I use deliberative/dialogue techniques and insights from social psychology, argumentation, conflict management and other fields to build capacity in local communities for improved communication and engagement to address our shared wicked problems more productively.
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@ncdd is now on bluesky, they will be building a D&D (dialogue and deliberation) starter kit. Be sure to connect with them.
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Humans are very good at getting any new evidence to fit within their existing narrative, rather than allowing it to challenge that narrative.