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	Podcast:		Citations Needed
	Episode:		News Brief: Consumer Society and the Curation of Culture
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:40:17
	Publish Date:		2018-11-21 17:35:23
	Description:		Focus groups have long-been derided by the left, right, and center for watering down culture and reducing creative and political endeavors to dull, show-of-hand reductionism. But what if focus groups – which first arose from socialist experiments in 1920s Vienna – are not inherently bad? What if they've simply been exploited by the capitalist class and could, potentially, have much to offer a left-wing, democratic vision of the world? We are joined by author and professor Liza Featherstone to discuss the problems and potential of the much-maligned, but often scapegoated, focus group.
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