Margarita Orozco

"There’s a lot we can do with deliberation in the newsroom because information is power"

Country: Colombia

Bio: Journalist, looks at media consumption, the relationship between emotion and deliberation

International Fellow in 2010

Areas of Interest: Journalism; Media; Media consumption; Deliberative Pedagogy

Email: margaraorozco@gmail.com

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What is she currently doing?

Currently a PhD Student. Her research is focused on how people that consumes certain kind of media can act more or less deliberative.

She also works at a biological lab – that studies the biological predispositions of people and the role of emotions. At the lab she is studying how people that have certain stimulus/emotions can be more or less deliberative.

New Questions around democracy

How media consumption effects deliberation?

How networked society supports deliberation processes?

How emotions (physiological answers) affect deliberation?

If people who are exposed to a special context, like war, for instance are more or less deliberative? If they are not, how can you increase their interest in deliberative processes or develop their capacities?

Suggestions for the international Network and connection with the Foundation

The meetings are pretty interesting. But if everybody had something to share with other people. KF spends a lot of money in projects. They are really fragment because sometimes we do not even know what people are doing. So what if KF decides that we would like to research how media consumption affects deliberation. What if every fellows in the world would address the same problem, with the same methodology and we would meet in the following year to discuss the results and from them publish articles together, then think about actions we could take and that’s how we could establish a real network.

Quotes/Insights

[KF] don’t know what to do with journalism. There are a lot of things you can do with deliberation in the newsroom because information is power. It’s important to invest in empirical research – I think you can get interesting views on that. They (kF) people who are doing review research and the ones doing empirical research or experiments in different patters. The question that they are trying to answer – “how to engage people in politics, etc” cannot be answered. But there are interesting researches that look into that, for example: a research that looks on different ways of interaction and engagement. They are stuck in the same question for the past 20 years.

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