Our Policy Forum article at Science has generated a monster blog discussion, one that is almost too much to keep up with. I continue to try to keep a summary […]
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AAAS has provided me with an author’s referral link that offers free access to our Policy Forum article. You can find the link in the left sidebar, just under the […]
Back in February, I chronicled the problems that the year’s first IPCC report had in achieving wider media and public attention. In response, I argued that in today’s fragmented media […]
How difficult is it for a well known political figure to break through the perceptual screens of partisanship, along with the ingrained frames of reference that citizens have developed over […]
Over at the blog Nanopublic, Dietram Scheufele, a professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin, has posted a very useful discussion of our Science Policy forum article.Scheufele, one of […]
In conjunction with Earth Day, a number of major survey results have been released on global warming, energy, and the environment. The latest is a survey from Gallup that chronicles […]
As I’ve noted, in places like Canada and Europe, nuclear energy has been successfully reframed as an important “middle way” compromise solution in the debate over what to do about […]
Before leaving the Massachusetts’ Governor’s office, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney added regulatory language to a legislative bill that was originally intended to only prohibit the creation of embryos for […]
On April 10, the Poynter Institute is set to release it’s latest “eye tracking” study of how readers navigate the printed and online news page. The preview of the key […]
My focus on the striking partisan differences in perceptions about the urgency and science of global warming has generated serious buzz at the NY Daily News, the Huffington Post, and […]
Florida and Ohio State face off tonight in the Men’s NCAA basketball championship, a re-match of January’s national title game in football. Both schools feature the best athletics programs that […]
At the NY Times, Michael Crichton reviews Jerome Groopman’s new book, a compilation of his medical essays from the New Yorker. Crichton’s review is worth reading, and two themes familiar […]
The Free University Berlin has an associate professor opening in Science Communication, as part of their Department of Political and Social Sciences and their Institute of Media and Communication Studies. […]
On April 24, investigative reporter Brooks Jackson and UPenn professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson are set to release a new book that is sure to be of interest to Framing Science […]
Despite the ever growing scientific consensus about the nature and urgency of global warming, Americans remain more divided politically on the matter than at anytime in history. The reason is […]
Back in February, I described how the first release of the IPCC was a massive communication failure, never really landing on the wider media or public agenda. In a column […]
In his response to the Supreme Court ruling, President Bush framed any policy action in familiar terms, emphasizing the “unfair economic burden” placed on the U.S. by any “cap and […]
Everywhere you look, polarized views from the tail ends of the bell curve of opinion on climate change are being picked up by the media. Indeed, only at a few […]
Over at The Intersection, Chris Mooney has a post up about the complete absence of U.S. news coverage dedicated to the record six tropical cyclones that have hit Madagascar, killing […]
When knowledge challenges values or cuts against preferred policies, you attack the messenger, and then invent your own rival knowledge. That’s been the playbook for the conservative movement over the […]
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 […]
As Earth Day approaches, expect a number of major polling reports on American views of global warming. I recently had a study accepted at Public Opinion Quarterly that analyzes twenty […]
My quick summary reaction to Bill Broad’s provocativeNY Timesarticle surveying a few scientists and social scientists’ opinions on Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth:1) Just like in politics generally, science-related blogs can […]
By way of the Internet, Americans today have more public affairs and science-related information available to them than at any time in history. Yet the availability of information does not […]
As I’ve previously written, expect 2008 to be defined as the YouTube election, as campaigns generate online and conversational buzz by placing innovative ads on the video sharing site, amplifying […]
All eyes today are on Capitol Hill as former VP Al Gore testifies before Congress on global warming. Bill Broad’s NY Times’ article last week has launched a new narrative […]
Gallup’s annual Earth Day survey of public attitudes on the environment is out today, and the results are consistent with the patterns revealed across other surveys this year. In short, […]
The NY Daily Newsspotlights yesterday’s post on the “Two Americas of Global Warming Perceptions” as among the Web’s best.
An initiative that I have been pitching in talks across the country (for example, go here, here, and here), has been proposed for official funding in Congress. Stay tuned for […]
As I have detailed at Framing Science many times, over the past five years, as Democrats and Independents have shifted their views in support of embryonic stem cell research and […]