Martín Carcasson
@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.
Listening to Cornell West and Robert George start off the UCCS Conference on Civic Discourse in Colorado Springs.
June 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Listening to Cornell West and Robert George start off the UCCS Conference on Civic Discourse in Colorado Springs.
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).
May 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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.
May 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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.
May 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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)
May 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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)
Conversation around this vinn diagram.
April 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Conversation around this vinn diagram.
Enjoying @leedrutman.bsky.social talk as part of the CSU Democracy Summit. Important ideas about rebuilding our democracy. Focused on the case for proportional representation and fusion voting as key reforms.
March 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Enjoying @leedrutman.bsky.social talk as part of the CSU Democracy Summit. Important ideas about rebuilding our democracy. Focused on the case for proportional representation and fusion voting as key reforms.
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...
November 28, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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...
One of the key insights from Stanovich's book that I mention often in talks is that for most biases, the smarter & more educated we are the better we manage/overcome the bias. Except for my-side bias. We just get better at finding evidence that we are right and refuting evidence that challenges us.
November 17, 2024 at 3:30 PM
One of the key insights from Stanovich's book that I mention often in talks is that for most biases, the smarter & more educated we are the better we manage/overcome the bias. Except for my-side bias. We just get better at finding evidence that we are right and refuting evidence that challenges us.
The opening slide for my presentation yesterday giving the closing keynote at the Water in the West Symposium. csuspur.org/witw/
My focus is on local communities, but that word is wonderfully adaptable and can certainly include regional, national, and global communities.
My focus is on local communities, but that word is wonderfully adaptable and can certainly include regional, national, and global communities.
November 15, 2024 at 3:03 PM
The opening slide for my presentation yesterday giving the closing keynote at the Water in the West Symposium. csuspur.org/witw/
My focus is on local communities, but that word is wonderfully adaptable and can certainly include regional, national, and global communities.
My focus is on local communities, but that word is wonderfully adaptable and can certainly include regional, national, and global communities.
Drew this vin diagram a few years ago (on a napkin at the end of a long conference day, NCDD 2010 I believe). Finally working on writing on article on it, making the case for the importance of deliberative capacity, and the limits (but also necessity) of dialogue and debate. Would love any thoughts.
October 20, 2023 at 2:21 PM
Drew this vin diagram a few years ago (on a napkin at the end of a long conference day, NCDD 2010 I believe). Finally working on writing on article on it, making the case for the importance of deliberative capacity, and the limits (but also necessity) of dialogue and debate. Would love any thoughts.