At the NYTimes, A Frame Shift for Nanotech?
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Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D, is a professor in the School of Communication at American University where his research focuses on the intersections between science, media, and politics. E-MAIL: nisbetmc@gmail.com
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FRAME: Pandora's Box:
At Skeptical Inquirer Online, Moving Beyond Gore's Message
Category: Global Warming
Solving the communication crisis...
Posted by Matthew C. Nisbet at 5:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How Extreme Weather Inspired Frankenstein
Category: FRAME: Pandora's Box
Does climate shape our literature?
Posted by Matthew C. Nisbet at 9:15 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nano @ the Movies: The Looming Frame Shift?
Category: Nanotechnology
A focusing event in combination with the entertainment media.
Posted by Matthew C. Nisbet at 2:33 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New Feature: A Typology of Frames for Science Debates
Category: Enviro/Science Reporting
Heuristics that citizens rely upon to make sense of science controversies.
Posted by Matthew C. Nisbet at 8:41 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Upstream/Downstream: Why The NY Times Should Understand the Nature of Inconvenient Truths
Category: Entertainment Media
My quick summary reaction to Bill Broad's provocative NY Times article surveying a few scientists and social scientists' opinions on Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth: 1) Just like in politics generally, science-related blogs can strongly shape the news agenda and framing...
Posted by Matthew C. Nisbet at 11:59 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
For a Majority of Americans, Global Warming Is Creating More Powerful Hurricanes
Category: Global Warming
The next hurricane season is only a few months away, and when it comes to the possible link between global warming and more intense storms, according to a just released Gallup poll, roughly half of Americans think hurricanes have...
Posted by Matthew C. Nisbet at 1:01 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Living on Thin Ice: How Polar Bears Were Used to Dramatize the IPCC Report's Release
Category: Global Warming
The Guardian has the details on the PR tactic of polar bear photos to (over)dramatize the impacts of global warming, tracing the idea to a 1993 Coca-Cola campaign. Here's a little bit about the strategic use of "cuddly anthropomorphism...
Posted by Matthew C. Nisbet at 7:13 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nuclear Energy as a Middle Way: In Canada, Global Warming Sparks a Renaissance for the Technology
Category: FRAME: Public Accountability
In a column last year, I detailed the historical trajectory in the U.S. of frames on nuclear energy, with images moving from very positive interpretations centered on social progress and economic development during the 1950s and 1960s to a very...
Posted by Matthew C. Nisbet at 9:30 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In Toronto, Former World Bank Official Delivers a Different Kind of Economic Framing on Climate Change
Category: FRAME: Economic Competitiveness
Where have you heard this one before? Back in September, Canada's Environment Minister John Baird echoed the predictions of a university economist when he claimed that if Canada were to meet its's 2008-12 Kyoto targets, it would require "a...
Posted by Matthew C. Nisbet at 10:22 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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