Comments on: The Inherited World https://blog.gen-we.com/?p=66 Generation We—the Millennials—has arrived. They have emerged as a powerful political and social force. Their huge numbers and progressive attitudes are already changing America. And the world. Fri, 28 May 2010 02:19:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Joseph Logan https://blog.gen-we.com/?p=66#comment-119 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:00:26 +0000 http://blog.gen-we.com/?p=66#comment-119 I think that you’re right; moreover, this is something that we really have to actively work against. The cognitive linguist There are huge, well-funded think tanks devoted to programming issue frames into the brains of mass-media audiences (Lakoff, 2007-now); for example, by calling the fight against extremism a “War on Terror,” the Bush administration granted itself war powers. There are countless examples of this kind of thing in the news, and since learning about them, it’s unbearable to watch television at all.

Lakoff isn’t the only one doing research into the cognitive neuroscience of media framing; just Google the subject if you want some good geeking-out material.

Videos of those Google talks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNLP88aTg_8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saDHFomGW3A

]]> By: Joseph Logan https://blog.gen-we.com/?p=66#comment-118 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:59:55 +0000 http://blog.gen-we.com/?p=66#comment-118 I think that you’re right; moreover, this is something that we really have to actively work against. The cognitive linguist There are huge, well-funded think tanks devoted to programming issue frames into the brains of mass-media audiences (Lakoff, 2007-now); for example, by calling the fight against extremism a “War on Terror,” the Bush administration granted itself war powers. There are countless examples of this kind of thing in the news, and since learning about them, it’s unbearable to watch television at all.

Lakoff isn’t the only one doing research into the cognitive neuroscience of media framing; just Google the subject if you want some good geeking-out material.

Lakoff talks at Google:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNLP88aTg_8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saDHFomGW3A

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