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 […]
NPR’s Richard Harris reports on the UN National Security Council’s attempt to recast global warming as really a matter of national and global security. Trinifar has all the details and […]
To be honest, I hadn’t seen the online program Bloggingheads.tv before. But today they offer a pretty substantive discussion of our Framing Science thesis. Apparently the host agrees with us. […]
The transcript of the interview I did last week at NPR’s On the Media is now available. In the interview, I restate exactly what we argued first at Science and […]
A small yet very vocal contingent of critics continue to ferociously attack our Framing Science thesis. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left wondering why. Here are two observations posted […]
If anyone should understand how to effectively communicate with the broader public about teaching evolution in schools, it’s Dr. Steve Case. He’s assistant director of the Center for Science Education […]
The Point of Inquiry podcast is produced by the Center for Inquiry-Transnational and averages 60,000 listeners a week. In this week’s show, host DJ Grothe and I engage in a […]
How do you play on the fragmented media system and the miserly nature of the public to persuade Americans to oppose major policy action on climate change? Conservative columnist George […]
It’s definitely been a busy week trying to keep up with a seismic blog debate. I’ve tried to weigh in where I can and so has Chris Mooney. However, in […]
In an article in the Sunday Outlook section of the Washington Post, we advance the arguments offered in our Science Policy Forum commentary. We also respond directly to some of […]