2025 updates – £0.77 book & new article on metaphor
2025 updates: my £0.77 book on political and media framing, plus new article on metaphor in science, and a celebration of books...
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About media framing • (written by Brian Dean)
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December 2023 updates – essential reading
Some essential reading items of interest for this Winter - including Framelab, The Coming Wave, Doppelganger and Noise...
New book on framing (2023)
New 2023 paperback edition of Lazy Person's Guide to Framing published. A 210-page greatly extended/updated version, with lush print job.
Algorithm politics & framing
“Free speech” and “censorship” are framed in ways suggestive of legacy media gatekeeping “centres” (eg of publishing and broadcasting) – even though the debates concern mostly “decentralised” online media with algorithm gatekeeping.
“Whataboutism”
Before it had the name "whataboutism", I regarded the compulsion as harmless and "adolescent" - akin to the stereotype of, say, students blaming everything on their own government, "The Man", "The System", etc, coupled with a sort of "your enemy's enemy is your friend" logic. But boosted - or indeed "weaponised" - on social media and Youtube, etc, I no longer regard it as harmless.
Attn: Wage Slaves! (book review)
Most work’ in this age is stupid, monotonous, brain-rotting, irritating, usually pointless Marx was quite right in calling it wage slavery. – Robert Anton Wilson, 1986 intro to ‘Undoing Yourself’, 3rd ed. The Good Life for Wage Slaves If I could go back in time to deliver a handful of near future books [ ]
Announcing new RAW blog
I ve created a new blog RAW semantics with speculative, philosophical posts about semantics, themed around the writings of Robert Anton Wilson (who I m a long-time admirer of). For those interested, I ve also set up a Twitter account for it https://twitter.com/RAWsemantics (Update, 2024: I ve stopped using X/Twitter since Elon Musk turned it increasingly [ ]
Media distancing – word as virus
April 2020 – I recommend the practice of media distancing for your psychological well-being. — (Just as social distancing is advised for physical well-being). — It s the opposite of having your head in the sand, and there s an art to it. Continual exposure to the news (including large sections of social media) doesn t make us [ ]
The strange case of Glenn Greenwald
This article is also available at medium.com Guccifer 2.0 arbiter of “public good” 26 Feb 2020 – In October 2016, Glenn Greenwald had a conversation with Naomi Klein, in which Klein tried to pose a few criticisms of the ways Greenwald and Julian Assange covered the hacked Clinton/Podesta/DNC emails. Unfortunately, the two media stars [ ]
Behaviour modification empires for rent
Of all the what the hell is going on? type books that I ve read in the last few years, the one I enjoyed most was Jaron Lanier s Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts. The title undersells this book s importance, to my mind. After all, it s neither self-help nor clickbait it s not like [ ]