Frame Analysis:
I have to admit that I've been avoiding the "framing science" discussion that's been going on in the science blogosphere recently, mostly because I'd rather talk about what framing is and how it works than two author's rather vague ideas...
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Posted on April 19, 2007 9:16 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the recent dust up over "framing science," there's been more hand waving than any actual discussion of, you know, framing. However, I was struck by one point that fellow ScienceBlogger Matt Nisbet, one of the authors of the Science...
Posted on April 19, 2007 8:42 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As you all know, fellow ScienceBloggers Matt Nisbet and Chris Mooney published an article in the April 6 issue of Science on the topic of "framing science." The article has sparked a great deal of (sometimes heated) debate on ScienceBlogs...
Posted on April 10, 2007 4:50 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm sure you've all long forgotten about the framing project that I discussed on this blog late last year, but in case someone out there remembers it, I wanted to give you an update. I still want to collect the...
Posted on March 14, 2007 5:03 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It's time for another reposting of something I wrote on the old blog. Laziness reigns again. This is a post on research on political analogies, originally posted on March 29, 2005. If it looks like it's starting in the middle,...
Posted on November 8, 2006 10:01 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You know things have taken a turn for the surreal when George Lakoff is described as "an admirer of Noam Chomsky." I may dislike his linguistics and his political theory, but I have to pat him on the back for...
Posted on November 6, 2006 5:29 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sometimes I forget that not everyone who happens upon this blog today has been reading it from day one (I mean come on, why haven't you?). It surprises me, then, when people tell me they've seen no evidence that George...
Posted on November 1, 2006 10:04 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Just to let you know where things stand, I'm in the process of setting up the study. Some of the coding is a bit over my head, because I've never done this sort of thing on the web before. Fellow...
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Posted on October 26, 2006 9:16 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
OK, the initial response to my quesitons about the internet study was overwhelmingly positive, so I'm going to go ahead with it. I just need one more thing from you. Ordinarily with a study like this, I would run a...
Posted on October 24, 2006 9:28 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm working on writing up a lengthy description of an alternative to Lakoff's political theory, mostly because I feel guilty about doing little more than trashing it without offering anything positive to the discussion. My approach is based on, well,...
Posted on October 23, 2006 6:36 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
George Lakoff has published two new political books, Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea, and Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision, as follow ups to his Moral Politics and Don't Think of an Elephant. I...
Posted on October 7, 2006 7:28 PM • 39 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Those of you interested in this whole frame analysis thing, or in George Lakoff's new cult of personality, might find his blog interview at Emboldened. I'm planning on writing a post about Lakoff when my computer access is more consistent,...
Posted on July 21, 2006 9:41 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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