Martín Carcasson

Has my vote.

Yes, term limits seem to be one of those things the public loves on the face of it, but the research shows has many unintended negative consequences.

Don’t dwell on “democracy,” and other new findings about how to market local news "Here’s the paradox: 93% of people believe reliable local news is necessary for democracy, yet many of these same people react negatively to explicit 'democracy' messaging."

This Nieman Reports article summarizes the findings. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/dont...

The conversation in part will respond to this report from Press Forward - www.pressforward.news/wp-content/u...

Upcoming NCDD Webinar: Talking Democracy (or Not): How Local Newsrooms Choose Their Words The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) will co-host a webinar with Colorado State University Center for Public Deliberation, titled “Talking Democracy (or Not): How Local...

I'm hosting a NCDD/Deliberative Journalism Project webinar next Wed (11/12), 10am MTN/12 eastern with several journalism leaders to talk about how local newsrooms should talk about democracy, partly responding to new research on the need to avoid the word. Register here: www.ncdd.org/news/upcomin...

I think the handoff from shotgun formation on 4th and one is worse.

Martín Carcasson about the Center for Public Deliberation and overcoming toxic polarization Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription of the interview with Martin Carcasson, it may contains errors. Host: Alessandro Oppo Guest: Martin Carcasson, Director of Colorado State University Center...

Enjoyed my conversation on Democracy Innovators, a Civic Tech podcast out of Europe. Recorded a few weeks ago, but the topic has only become more important across the globe. democracyinnovators.com/martin-carca...

Way back in grad school, I used this tool to analyze how US presidents from 1988 to 2000 talked about climate change, and how we could potentially reframe things. (though I've adjusted things a bit on spheres) drive.google.com/file/d/1ADtO...

The public sphere combines them all, and it is always an interesting point of analysis of which one(s) dominate(s). Biofuels seems like a clear example of the political frame (& economic for a small group) somehow dominating science & common sense. But the more we learn about it, that can change.

So in argumentation there is a tool we use that talks about how argument works in different technical spheres (the primary ones are politics, science, law, economics, and morality). What counts as a good argument is different in each sphere. Conflict often when people focus on different spheres....

I agree, but I would also argue that sometimes "virtue signaling" was seeing an issue through too simplistic of a frame. Most issues involve many underlying values, & you can proclaim you are virtuous by simplifying it to one, thus implying people that disagree must be against that value/are evil.

Would be nice...

Collaborative Problem Solving with Martín Carcasson - The Great Battlefield Podcast Martín Carcasson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in academia and his role as Director at the Colorado State University Center for Public Deliberation, where he trains stud...

Enjoyed my conversation with Nathanial Pearlman for his Great Battlefield podcast, talking about the work of the CPD and bringing people together to address their shared problems. Check it out (and his earlier conversations with lots of interesting guests).
greatbattlefield.com/episode/coll...

local journalism matters.

Listening to Cornell West and Robert George start off the UCCS Conference on Civic Discourse in Colorado Springs.

Somehow haven't heard "No news is bad news." I'll have to remember that.

Did it cite studies that don't exist?

Been reading more lately about how new tech platforms & apps are developed to flip the script from the typical "outrage industrial complex" workings of most social media & actually work to bring people together and incentivize quality engagement. This essay provides a nice summary of those efforts.

Thwarting conflict profiteers to save the republic Over several decades, fringe ideas have grown in popularity to reach the crescendo of noise we have today. Truth and facts are routinely dismissed by half the country (progressive and conservative!) a...

Article that I am pulling the term from is here, from @debilyn.bsky.social thefulcrum.us/money-politi...

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).

Briand's Practical Politics provided an early blueprint for the CPD.

I keep on playing with the word choices, and added a new bullet this morning, but getting pretty close to locking these in for my book.

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)

As I work on my book, I wrote up a bit of my intellectual history, thinking about the academic disciplines and practitioner specialties I've bounced around for the last 20 years. Part of this was also thinking about the most influential books during that journey.

Seems like he could have just had AI write the books really quickly to cover up the mistake.

You may need to round up the Newies for another fight.

Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky.

Reminds me of the Paul Harvey and his “and now for the rest of the story” bits.

www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

Pretty sure my favorite warning in pharmaceutical commericials is "do not take if allergic."

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

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.