What goes without saying

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    • Carlson, Taylor N.
    • Settle, Jaime E.

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What goes without saying

Taylor N. Carlson, Washington University in St. Louis, Jaime E. Settle, College of William and Mary, Virginia

Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: computer (rdamedia), Carrier Type: online resource (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "It's December 4th, nearly a month after a contentious election, and Joe is just beginning a typical Thursday. Living in a big city means he can take public transit to work, and that's what he's doing at 8:37 this morning. Climbing into the bus, he quickly scans the open seats and chooses to sit next to a woman holding a backpack in her lap that appears to be blissfully free of political buttons and patches. As he settles in for the 12-minute ride, he pulls out his copy of the local newspaper, but before he even cracks it open, his seatmate pipes up with a snarky comment about the legitimacy of the election results. Joe feels trapped: his heart is racing, and his palms feel sweaty. He instantly regrets his decision to read the paper instead of listening to a podcast, where his headphones could shield him from the unwanted political commentary of others. He thinks it would be rude to get up and move away, but the last thing he wants to do before his first cup of coffee is have a debate about the elect

Contents of Works

  • Opening the Black Box of Political Discussion
  • The 4D Framework of Political Discussion
  • Data Collection
  • Detection: Mapping the Political Landscape
  • Decision: To Talk or Not to Talk?
  • Discussion Part 1: Racing Hearts and Sweating Palms : The Psychophysiological Experience of Political Discussion
  • Discussion Part 2: Walking a Tightrope : Expression in Political Discussions
  • Determination: When Discussion Divides Us
  • Individual Dispositions and the 4D Framework
  • The Costs of Conversation

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Description

Why are political conversations uncomfortable for so many people? The current literature focuses on the structure of people's discussion networks and the frequency with which they talk about politics, but not the dynamics of the conversations themselves. In What Goes Without Saying, Taylor N. Carlson and Jaime E. Settle investigate how Americans navigate these discussions in their daily lives, with particular attention to the decision-making process around when and how to broach politics. The authors use a multi-methods approach to unpack what they call the 4D Framework of political conversation: identifying the ways that people detect others' views, decide whether to talk, discuss their opinions honestly-or not, and determine whether they will repeat the experience in the future. In developing a framework for studying and explaining political discussion as a social process, What Goes Without Saying will set the agenda for research in political science, psychology, communication, and sociology for decades to come.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Opening the black box of political discussion
  • 2. The 4d framework of political discussion
  • 3. Data collection
  • 4. Detection: Mapping the political landscape (stage 1)
  • 5. Decision: To talk or not to talk? (stage 2)
  • 6. Discussion: The psychophysiological experience of political discussion (stage 3)
  • 7. [further] discussion: Expression in political discussion (stage 3)
  • 8. Determination: When discussion divides us (stage 4)
  • 9. Individual dispositions and the 4d framework
  • 10. The costs of conversation
  • Index.

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