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News Frames is a UK site on media framing »

Book:

Lazy Person’s Guide to Framing – brand new updated/extended 210-page 2023 edition available in paperback and on Kindle now!

Latest blog posts:

My new book on framing (2023)

Algorithm politics & framing

The strange case of Glenn Greenwald

Other recent posts:

♦ “Weaponised” political framing
♦ Frames-based autopsy of Trump/Brexit calamities
♦ What my Independent article on the “alt-left” left out
♦ Framing vs “Orwellian language”

Framing: starting guides

Many people mistakenly see frames as simply a respectable name for “spin” or persuasion (marketing/PR). Actually, we think in frames all the time – it’s how we make sense of “raw” experience. Going beyond the popular misconception of framing as “superficial wordplay” is one of the main aims of this blog. Here are a few short intros to get you started on this most important of 21st century ideas:

• Framing: A Short Primer – Brief intro. The very least that you should know.
• The Metaphor is the Message – Frames involve conceptual metaphor.
• The Cognitive Unconscious – Our use of frames is mostly unconscious, automatic.
• Essentials of framing – On George Lakoff’s ‘moral politics’ frames.

“News” & political framing

Here are some examples from this site on how framing may be applied to political and media issues:

• “Benefit tourists”
• How not to frame “workers”
• Endless “austerity” framing
• Iraq War Framing for Dummies
• “Human rights” framing
• “Flatlined” economy

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