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.
Show PostI 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...
Show PostSo, 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
Show PostThe 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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