Michael Kaplan

Michael Kaplan

differance.bsky.social

Writer. Teacher. Scholar of rhetoric, media and democracy. Chicago Bears and Arsenal fan. My work is mysterious and important.

👤 Joined on 18 July 2023

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I agree, mini publics basically can't be scaled. I see their value basically as idealized focus groups.

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I emphatically agree. A longstanding line of critique of the Fishkin approach is that the info does most of the opinion-change work. There's a clear way to test it in their design, too; they usually send info packets to participants after selection & initial screening but before deliberation...

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So, if the info does the work, you'd see it in changed views between initial screening & receipt/processing of provided info and before deliberation. I don't know if that's been tested. Maybe @dwmbarker.bsky.social knows

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The professor is Carolyn Marvin, one of the founders of media history research in the US, one of my subfields. Now leading the resistance against robot replacement of human labor. 

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