Thanks Jamie, this is quite useful. I am thinking about how to best disseminate it more widely. I know a lot of passionate vegan activist who would probably benefit from reading it but I suspect that few of them will engage with the post at this level of detail.
It might help if there was some sort of teaser to get people to get attention and engage potential readers.
Would it be possible to create a one page plain language summary, an infographic/sharable image or a short video of you summarising what you did and what you found?
Also, just as a comment, I think that the idea that social movement activism can have unintended bad consequences is particularly under appreciated amongst some vegan activists.
Something like the the 80k ‘failed social interventions list’ but animal advocacy focused, would be a very valuable resource (for me anyway) to influence vegan advocacy approaches.
Interesting, thanks for the feedback and suggestions!
I think that this blog post is about as plain language / simplified as we’re likely to go, for now, partly because there are just so many nuances and caveats required that stripping even more of these out (I already stripped quite a few, and worried about doing so) might be misleading or damaging.
I think it’s more likely that we (or others!) would use this evidence as an input into more public-facing content about particular sub issues. E.g. a blog post specifically about “the idea that social movement activism can have unintended bad consequences” which draws on this historical evidence, as well as psychological/communications studies research into backfire/boomerang effects following persuasion attempts, etc etc. Or persuasive writing along the lines of “Use more of X tactic and less of Y” where we include the historical evidence alongside other evidence, similarly to how we have written about institutional vs. individual tactics (blog example, academic paper example).
That said, if someone else wanted to work on distilling the work into a more accessible format, I’d be happy to discuss and assist.
Thanks Jamie, that’s fair enough! I’ll share this as it is. If you have the bandwidth it would be great to keep the dissemination options in mind and plan for accessible outputs for the future. I don’t want to say much more but my opinion is that you can probably communicate the findings with the same fidelity via a video as a document/blog post. In either case you are hoping that people will dive into the report for the full details after you give the summary but often they just focus on the key points/highlights/section headers regardless. However, in the case of the video its probably likely people will stay watching and also that more people will watch. I don’t have citations for that but I know for instance that videos are much more likely to go viral on LinkedIn for example. Anyway, it’s just a thought. Keep up the great work!
Thanks Jamie, this is quite useful. I am thinking about how to best disseminate it more widely. I know a lot of passionate vegan activist who would probably benefit from reading it but I suspect that few of them will engage with the post at this level of detail.
It might help if there was some sort of teaser to get people to get attention and engage potential readers.
Would it be possible to create a one page plain language summary, an infographic/sharable image or a short video of you summarising what you did and what you found?
Also, just as a comment, I think that the idea that social movement activism can have unintended bad consequences is particularly under appreciated amongst some vegan activists.
Something like the the 80k ‘failed social interventions list’ but animal advocacy focused, would be a very valuable resource (for me anyway) to influence vegan advocacy approaches.
Interesting, thanks for the feedback and suggestions!
I think that this blog post is about as plain language / simplified as we’re likely to go, for now, partly because there are just so many nuances and caveats required that stripping even more of these out (I already stripped quite a few, and worried about doing so) might be misleading or damaging.
I think it’s more likely that we (or others!) would use this evidence as an input into more public-facing content about particular sub issues. E.g. a blog post specifically about “the idea that social movement activism can have unintended bad consequences” which draws on this historical evidence, as well as psychological/communications studies research into backfire/boomerang effects following persuasion attempts, etc etc. Or persuasive writing along the lines of “Use more of X tactic and less of Y” where we include the historical evidence alongside other evidence, similarly to how we have written about institutional vs. individual tactics (blog example, academic paper example).
That said, if someone else wanted to work on distilling the work into a more accessible format, I’d be happy to discuss and assist.
Thanks Jamie, that’s fair enough! I’ll share this as it is. If you have the bandwidth it would be great to keep the dissemination options in mind and plan for accessible outputs for the future. I don’t want to say much more but my opinion is that you can probably communicate the findings with the same fidelity via a video as a document/blog post. In either case you are hoping that people will dive into the report for the full details after you give the summary but often they just focus on the key points/highlights/section headers regardless. However, in the case of the video its probably likely people will stay watching and also that more people will watch. I don’t have citations for that but I know for instance that videos are much more likely to go viral on LinkedIn for example. Anyway, it’s just a thought. Keep up the great work!