GRAPH: MAJOR NEWSPAPER ATENTION TO “BLOOD” OR “CONFLICT” DIAMONDSAll eyes in the science advocacy community will be on Paris tomorrow, as the policymakers’ summary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]
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Friday’s IPCC report represents history’s most definitive statement of scientific consensus on climate change, yet despite the best efforts of scientists, advocates, and several media organizations to magnify wider attention […]
With political leaders like Senator James Inhofe and ideological safe zones like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal editorial page, is it any wonder that only 23% of college-educated […]
What accounts for the striking partisan differences in public perceptions of global warming? As I’ve detailed (here and here), it’s a combined result of strong opinion-cues from party leaders and […]
Last week, global warming cracked the top 5 news stories at Pew’s media attention index, but only accounted for roughly 5% of the total news hole across outlets, dwarfed by […]
How much impact has Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth had on the global warming debate? More generally, how can we understand the range of influences that a documentary film might have […]
Declaring that framing should be a central strategy, Ellen Goodman in today’s syndicated Boston Globe column issues a call to arms on climate change: “Can we change from debating global […]
A series of concerts “bigger than Live Aid” are being planned for July, in a bid to put the subject of climate change before a global audience of two billion, […]
Though they may appear very simple, intensive time and effort goes into plotting the jacket covers for intended blockbuster novels like Michael Crichton’s Next. Today’s backpage essay at the NY […]
Just how tough is it to sustain news and thereby public attention to the problem of global warming? Exhibit A: The week after the release of the IPCC report, the […]
Where once it was the province of against-the-establishment rebels and citizen media types, major institutions are now taking wide advantage of blogging technology to promote their message or to expand […]
Irony can be an effective persuasion tool. As pictured on the Drudge Report this morning with the headline: HEARING ON ‘WARMING OF PLANET’ CANCELED BECAUSE OF ICE STORM. The headline […]
Want to keep up with the details of stem cell funding and politics in California? The California Stem Cell Report is the place for you. And while you are there, […]
Something’s rotten in Denmark. Conservatives once again have sprung a media trap on Al Gore, but this time overseas.At the Wall Street Journal , “skeptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg and Danish […]
Across most nationally representative surveys, if you measure Evangelical christians as those respondents who identify themselves as “evangelical” and who also, when given a multiple choice question, answer that the […]
At the Washington Post today , Juliet Eilperin and Michael Grunwald report on the diverging priorities of House speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic chairmen John Dingell and Henry Waxman, […]
I’ve noted in recent presentations and posts the strong role of partisanship in how Americans view the science and relative urgency of global warming. Yet according to a Pew survey […]
By far, the most successful buzz marketing campaign of the past decade has been Apple’s ability to dominate news coverage with the release of their latest i-products. NPR’s On the […]
For those that have been following the debate over the recent Chronicle of Higher Ed rankings of top US research universities, the publication is currently hosting an interesting discussion with […]
Back in the fall, after hosting a class “blog” debate on the Internet and community, more than a few readers asked me whether I would post the reading list for […]
Bird flu is suddenly back in the news as officials in Indonesia report new cases this week. In a spring 2006 Skeptical Inquirer Online column, after evaluating trends in reporting […]
In case you missed it, ScienceBlogs lit up last week with news that Federal Way school district in Seattle has banned Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, in part because the presentation […]
A warm welcome to students from UNC’s English 12 course.Please have fun navigating and evaluating my blog. Feel free to leave comments, suggestions, and feedback in the comments section of […]
University classes for the spring semester are in full swing, and several courses have integrated blogs and the evaluation of such into their class content. As previously posted, UNC’s English […]
Today I am launching a new regular feature where I will spotlight DC events of interest for readers of Framing Science who live, work, and play here in the Beltway. […]
The latest analysis of the week’s top news agenda stories from the Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that despite the Dems best efforts to draw media and public attention […]
Tony Snow denies reports from sources close to UK prime minister Tony Blair that Bush will use next week’s State of the Union address to announce plans for the US […]
Many readers will want to check out the debate going on over at Belief.net between best-selling “End of Faith” author Sam Harris and “Conservative Soul” author/Time magazine blogger Andrew Sullivan. […]
From the news wires: Calling concerns about building George W. Bush’s presidential library there unfounded, Southern Methodist University’s president told faculty Wednesday the project would increase the school’s visibility nationwide….”Over […]
In the days before the House vote to fund embryonic stem cell research, the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times ran page one stories heralding a Nature Biotech study that […]