The text may have sounded that way -- my fault, if so. Take a look at the
many years of field research, both in industrialized and developing
countries, that supports Dervin's reseach, in order to judge its
speciousness and pseudo-ness.
"Peter Jones" <ppj@concept67.fsnet.co.uk> on 11/14/2001 03:15:35 PM
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Al Selvin wrote:
>Brenda Dervin, for example, contrasted a sensemaking
>approach to the persuasion approach. For her, sensemaking is a process
>where people confront obstacles or discontinuities in their progress
>towards some goal; when they hit such obstacles, they cast about for ways
>to understand their situation so that they can design effective movements
>around, through, or away from the obstacles. It has little to do with
>persuasion and much to do with figuring out what's going on and what to do
>in a situation where the normal rules are upset.
Nope, I'm not persuaded. Based on the text above, it sounds like specious
pseudo-intellectual meaning dodging.
>much to do with figuring out
Self-persuasion? Justified beliefs, new or old?
It's still a form of persuasion.
How rational and sophisticated it is is entirely dependent on the players
and the context, but it's still persuasion.
But then that's just my opinion, you don't have to be convinced.
Cheers,
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Park" <jackpark@thinkalong.com>
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Subject: Re: [unrev-II] Visual stimuli & IBIS methodology
> At 09:11 AM 11/14/2001 -0500, Al wrote:
> >I studied communication in grad school in the early 80s. In that field,
> >much of the newer and promising work going on was a reaction *against* a
> >model of communication as persuasion, which had dominated the field in
the
> >previous decades. Brenda Dervin, for example, contrasted a sensemaking
> >approach to the persuasion approach. For her, sensemaking is a process
> >where people confront obstacles or discontinuities in their progress
> >towards some goal; when they hit such obstacles, they cast about for
ways
> >to understand their situation so that they can design effective
movements
> >around, through, or away from the obstacles. It has little to do with
> >persuasion and much to do with figuring out what's going on and what to
do
> >in a situation where the normal rules are upset.
>
> As it turns out, I read TR 74 and was somehow primed for this response,
> which also corresponds to my intuition that seeking truth or making sense
> cannot and should not involve persuasion. It is for this reason that I
> have been thinking that keeping the participants (at least in the non
> face-to-face) dialogs anonymous. I have observed a tendency to play to
> whatever opinions the "expert" (read: big cheese) has to say, while
> conducting meetings with QuestMap. It strikes me that a good facilitator
> ought to have some skills handy for deflecting the force of unwarranted
karma.
>
> Jack
>
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