Storytelling and Deliberative Play in the Oregon Citizens’ Assembly Online Pilot on COVID-19 Recovery
This article draws on the deliberative play framework to examine empirical examples of storytelling in an online deliberative forum: The Oregon Citizen Assembly (ORCA) Pilot on COVID-19 Recovery. ORCA engaged 36 citizens in deliberation about state policy through an online deliberative process spann...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/00027642221093591 2024-06-16T07:42:32+00:00 Storytelling and Deliberative Play in the Oregon Citizens’ Assembly Online Pilot on COVID-19 Recovery Black, Laura W. Wolfe, Anna W. Han, Soo-Hye 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00027642221093591 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00027642221093591 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/00027642221093591 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license American Behavioral Scientist volume 67, issue 8, page 963-981 ISSN 0002-7642 1552-3381 journal-article 2022 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642221093591 2024-05-19T13:02:40Z This article draws on the deliberative play framework to examine empirical examples of storytelling in an online deliberative forum: The Oregon Citizen Assembly (ORCA) Pilot on COVID-19 Recovery. ORCA engaged 36 citizens in deliberation about state policy through an online deliberative process spanning seven weeks. Drawing on literature on small stories in deliberation, we trace stories related to a policy proposal about paying parents to educate children at home. Our analysis demonstrates that storytelling activities accomplish aspects of deliberative play through introducing uncertainty, resisting premature closure, and promoting an “as if” frame that allows groups to explore the scope and implications of proposals. Forum design influences interaction and our analysis suggests that technology use and timing are key design features that can facilitate or inhibit deliberative play. Article in Journal/Newspaper Orca SAGE Publications American Behavioral Scientist 000276422210935 |
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This article draws on the deliberative play framework to examine empirical examples of storytelling in an online deliberative forum: The Oregon Citizen Assembly (ORCA) Pilot on COVID-19 Recovery. ORCA engaged 36 citizens in deliberation about state policy through an online deliberative process spanning seven weeks. Drawing on literature on small stories in deliberation, we trace stories related to a policy proposal about paying parents to educate children at home. Our analysis demonstrates that storytelling activities accomplish aspects of deliberative play through introducing uncertainty, resisting premature closure, and promoting an “as if” frame that allows groups to explore the scope and implications of proposals. Forum design influences interaction and our analysis suggests that technology use and timing are key design features that can facilitate or inhibit deliberative play. |
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