Framing Reality: Rhetoric, Language and Concepts (archive)

(Rough archive compiled for my students--suggestions of other sources, websites, documentaries and books/essay are appreciated)

Framing Reality: Rhetoric, Language and Concepts

Rob Pope: Communication (English Studies)

Matthew Nisbet: What is Framing? (How media influences and shapes science-policy debates)

Jon May: Social Constructionism (Geography)

Slavoj Zizek: The Enchainments of Meaning (Critical Theory)

Defining and Using Words/Concepts (Notes/Comments by Michael Benton)

Thinking About Writing and Language (bibliography)

Collective Memory: Remembrance and Representation (bibliography)

W. Lance Bennett, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston: An excerpt from When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (Communication Studies of News Media Framing)

W. Lance Bennet: Political Communication Resources

Brian Holmes: Imaginary Maps, Global Solidarities (Maps: Framing Reality)

The Christian Century: Protecting Against Media Bias

Stephen Ledman: Robert McChesney's: The Political Economy Of Media, Part 1 (Political Economy of Media)

Robert W. McChesney: Rich Media, Poor Democracy (Political Economy of Media)

Notes/Resources on Rich Media, Poor Democracy (Michael Benton)

Jay Rosen: The News About the News (Journalism)

Douglas Rushkoff: Coercion—Why We Listen to What They Say (Media Studies)

Noam Chomsky (Political Propaganda and Media Framing—global perspective)

Howard Zinn (History and Media)

Nancy Snow (American persuasion, influence and propaganda—on a global perspective)

Media Czech: Fun and Games at the Creation Museum (Religious Rhetoric/Museum Exhibits)

The Language of the War on Terror (archive)

Deleuze and Guattari: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Experimental theorization on how traditional psychological/psychoanalytic theories have shaped our reality)

Chalmers Johnson: Nemesis—The Last Days of the American Republic (Political Rhetoric of American Militarism). A Democracy Now interview of Chalmers Johnson about the book Interview of Chalmers Johnson: “Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.” Also: Inverted Totalitarianism: A New Way of Understanding How the U.S. Is Controlled

Corporate Greenwashing ("astroturf organizations": corporate framing of their businesses as “green” to fool concerned environmentalist consumers)

Naomi Klein: Shock Doctrine—The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (rhetoric of the free-market economic revolution and its influence on American political/military/foreign policy worldwide) and a Democracy Now interview with Klein about the book and various video lectures by Klein on the subject

Ruth Shagoury Hubbard: The Truth About Helen Keller (selective framing of historical figures)

Thinking About Culture, Nationalism, War, Empire, Rhetoric and Media (archive)

Myths and Falsehoods About Oil Prices (Economic Framing)

David Brin: "Star Wars" despots vs. "Star Trek" populists (narrative framing)

Philip K. Dick: "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who use the words" (Science Fiction Author Reflecting on the Framing of Reality)

Cormac Deane: The Embedded Screen and the State of Exception--Counterterrorist Narratives and the War on Terror (Framing in Entertainment Media)