Public Discourse & Opinion
Opinion, polls, discourse, information campaigns
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Incomplete
3 bundles · 7 layers · 0 findings · 0 questions
topic What is being discussed and where
discourseTopic
topics, framings and agendas over time
arena
media arenas and channels where discourse circulates
measurement How opinion is measured and published
pollDesign
instruments, sampling frames, declared methodology
fieldwork
collection waves and response aggregates
opinionMeasure
published measures and their time series
campaign Organized attempts to shape discourse
campaignProfile
information campaigns, sponsors and declared aims
messageTrace
message variants and their distribution traces
Note: Legacy card: layers named, findings and questions never written.
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- World Models
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- standalone-mm
- Navigation path
- NAV.SOC.CIV.DSC
- Domain
- SOC.CIV.DSC
- Industry
- Cross-industry
- Tags
- publicdiscoursesoc.civ.dsc
- Also called
- D8
What it is Derived, awaiting review
This meta-model describes what publics talk about and what they think: discourse topics and the arenas where they circulate, the measurement of opinion through polls with open methodology, and organized information campaigns with their messages and reach.
Note: First sentence of the legacy card introduction.
Why it exists Filled
Opinion, polls, discourse, information campaigns
Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review
- It is its own model because opinion is a measured, methodology-dependent quantity, not a raw fact, and the model must carry instrument, sampling and disclosure alongside every published number to keep the measurement honest and comparable.
What robots and AI may and may not do Derived, awaiting review
Must not
- Respondent-level data never leaves the protected layer except under research contract, and all access is granted by the respective owner through the catalogue's S1/S2 models with audit via S4.
- microdataResearchAccess: de-identified respondent-level data released to researchers under contract, never publicly
Moral aspects Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Owners Filled
Steward
Polling organizations steward polls and measures under an open-methodology obligation; campaign records are stewarded by a neutral transparency registrar.
Links to other meta-models Filled
references
- world.organization - polling organizations, arena operators and campaign sponsors are organizations
- world.populationGroup - sampling frames and reported breakdowns are defined over statistical cohorts, never over identifiable members
- world.documentAndRecord - opinion measures link to the claims they concern, keeping measured belief distinct from evidenced knowledge
- world.socialNorm - discourse about norms and customs cross-links to their descriptive records
imports
- DDI - ALIGN: instrument, dataset and wave description for polls and their archives
requires
- vr.wm-civ-005
- vr.wm-per-005
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete
Identity and identifiers required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Capabilities and actions required Derived, awaiting review
- topicEmerged: a topic entered measurable public discussion
- pollFielded: fieldwork for a poll began
- waveClosed: a collection wave completed and its aggregates were fixed
- measurePublished: an opinion measure was released with its method summary
- methodologyDisclosed: full methodology for a poll was made open
- campaignLaunched: an information campaign began distribution
- campaignConcluded: a campaign ended and its reach record was closed
Legacy events listed as state transitions.
Hazards and failure modes optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Standards and interfaces required Derived, awaiting review
- methodologyDisclosure: the standing obligation of polling organizations to keep design, frame and instrument open for every published measure
- microdataResearchAccess: de-identified respondent-level data released to researchers under contract, never publicly
- measureSyndication: redistribution of published measures with mandatory method summary attached
- publishedMeasureBoard: topline measures with margins and method summaries; omits all respondent microdata
- campaignTransparencyRegister: campaigns with sponsor, period, budget class and reach; omits targeting internals and creative work product
- topicTimeline: topic lifecycles with attached measures and campaigns; omits fieldwork operations
Context of use required Filled
- Respondent-level data never leaves the protected layer except under research contract, and all access is granted by the respective owner through the catalogue's S1/S2 models with audit via S4.
Sources Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Open questions
- Superseded by a researched world model? Map this legacy card to its successor or retire it.
Machine files
Provenance
legacy MMAS card (world-models v0.2) · legacy
Built from: models/world-d8-public-discourse-and-opinion/spec.yaml, models/docs/civilization/D8-public-discourse-and-opinion.md