In our last major talk of the summer here in DC, on Tues. June 19 we will be delivering our Speaking Science 2.0 presentation at the Center for American Progress. […]
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With action on Iraq and major domestic initiatives such as immigration stalled, Congressional Dems have lost the sense of approval and optimism that greeted them in January. The gap in […]
First John McCain was against embryonic stem cell research, now he’s for it.First Mitt Romney was for embryonic stem cell research, now he’s against it.If either of these GOP candidates […]
Today I received the latest issue of Dartmouth Alumni magazine to discover inside an interesting poll of graduating seniors at my alma mater. Long branded a conservative campus–with notable right […]
Something to think about…Kyoto was strategically framed by conservatives as an unfair economic burden on the U.S. , deflating public support across polls. Yet according to Gallup trends and other […]
“I think one movie can make a difference; I do believe that,” says director Michael Moore. Indeed, speculation over the impact of his new documentary SICKO was the subject of […]
How do you engage the Republican base on global warming, connecting the issue to their core values and interests? For one part of this segment, as I have argued, you […]
The Barna Group maintains some of the best data tracking the consumer and opinion market for religious Americans, especially among Evangelicals. Though not an independent survey organization like Pew, over […]
Why is it so important to provide the wider American public with readily available and scientifically accurate “frames” that re-package complex issues in ways that make them personally meaningful and […]
How do you influence conservative media outlets to take climate change seriously, re-casting the issue in a light that connects to their conservative audiences? You got it: Framing.It’s a strategy […]
In an op-ed today at the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia’s paper of record, Chris Mooney weighs in with more on our framing science thesis. Chris has been on the road […]
As we argue in our Framing Science thesis, in order to engage a religiously diverse public on pressing problems like climate change, it’s important to offer positive and personally meaningful […]
On Friday, May 4, I will be back at my doctoral alma mater to give the following presentation sponsored by the Dept. of Communication. Readers at Cornell or in the […]
Posted from La Guardia airport in transit to a talk at Cornell University. Will have more comments this weekend.
Even before the publication of our Science and Washington Post commentaries, Chris and I were asked to do a number of joint talks in various cities. As attention grew to […]
With the semester finally winding down, over the weekend, I updated the tabs “What is Framing?” and “Popular Science vs. Framing.” These new sections of my blog explain in detail […]
In her book Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion, William & Mary anthropology professor Barbara J. King argues that religion is not so much a cognitively-derived […]
On Monday, we will be doing our first Speaking Science 2.0presentation for the DC-area community as part of the annual meetings of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. The talk […]
How do you activate an otherwise disinterested Republican base on the issue of global warming? As we argued in our Policy Forum article at Science, two possible frames are to […]
I’m late to this news feature that appeared two weeks ago at the journal Cell, as others here at ScienceBlogs have already posted on the article. Quoted below is the […]
Monday evening at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, Chris Mooney and I gave our first DC-area Speaking Science 2.0 presentation. We have details as pictures […]
I’ve got my DVR set to 830pm EST tonight in order to record in high definition the world television premiere of Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus. This past […]
UWisc-Madison is joining Harvard and Scotland’s University of Edinburgh by investing in a new stem cell research facility that promote cross-disciplinary collaborations. Tonight, in conjunction with a speech by Edinburgh […]
On May 3, former House Science Committee chair Sherwood Boehlert gave the distinguished AAAS Carey Lecture. It recently came to our attention that Boehlert spent a significant chunk of the […]
In a segment from the recent Frontline special “Hot Politics,” GOP pollster Frank Luntz explains his 1997/1998 memo that became the playbook for how conservatives like President Bush and Senator […]
Cities like Cambridge, MA, Madison, WI and Berkeley, CA aren’t the only places in the world vying to brand themselves as 21st century centers of innovation. This week, the BBC […]
Mary K. Miller of San Francisco’s The Exporatorium has launched a new blog called The Accidental Scientist. The blog is focused on introducing readers to the ways in which scientists […]
This spring in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]
This semester in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]
The Discovery Institute have a blog post up commenting on our WPost Outlook article. Given this latest response to our Framing Science thesis, I wanted to take time out from […]