{"id":1598,"date":"2009-04-17T13:34:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T18:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2009-04-17T13:34:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T18:34:47","slug":"liveblogging-ccf-its-not-dumbing-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/04\/17\/liveblogging-ccf-its-not-dumbing-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVEBLOGGING CCF: It&#8217;s Not &#8220;Dumbing It Down&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn3.google.com\/images?q=tbn:0wOP0cbGLCW3MM:http:\/\/www.bigskyline.com\/images\/Skyline_Chicago_Lake.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Hiya from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemporaryfamilies.org\">Council on Contemporary Families<\/a> conference in my hometown Chicago.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s 70 degrees and sunny, and only a gathering like this one could keep me inside.<\/p>\n<p>This morning Virginia Rutter, Stephanie Coontz, and I offered a media workshop, where I heard some of the best ever rationale for why &#8220;popping it up&#8221; (meaning, learning to write\/communicate your complex and researched ideas for a broader audience) is not &#8220;dumbing it down&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbara Risman:<\/strong> &#8220;If your idea is truly smart, it can be conveyed without jargon.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s laziness to think otherwise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Josh Coleman:<\/strong> &#8220;Reducing a complex idea to a soundbyte is a form of wisdom in itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephanie Coontz:<\/strong> &#8220;It&#8217;s not a compromise to your intellectual integrity.\u00c2\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t reduce your complex idea to one or two sentences, it may be because there&#8217;s a hole in your argument.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not merely a matter of laziness but intellectual self-deception.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virginia Rutter:<\/strong> &#8220;If you can&#8217;t boil it down, maybe media isn&#8217;t the medium for you.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s meant for a smaller discussion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiya from the Council on Contemporary Families conference in my hometown Chicago.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s 70 degrees and sunny, and only a gathering like this one could keep me inside. This morning Virginia Rutter, Stephanie Coontz, and I offered a media workshop, where I heard some of the best ever rationale for why &#8220;popping it up&#8221; (meaning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21106],"tags":[21282,129],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liveblogging","tag-crossover","tag-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}