Guest Thinkers — August 16, 2010

BloggingHeadTV on Framing Science

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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. His co-host misunderstands our goals for communication and the research on framing and media influence. But that’s okay. It’s clearly meant to be a point/counter-point. Kind of a Siskel and Ebert of blog commentary. Pretty cool.

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