Women, Welfare, and the United States Media

Framing of Kennewick Man against the Backdrop of a Scientific and Cultural Controversy

“…Thus, dichotomized coverage (what we call "oppositional dualism") that focuses on difference or controversy is common, particularly when policy matters are to be decided or when a court case-which necessarily involves two opposing interests-provides the platform for mediated discourse (Coleman 1996;Nisbet and Lewenstein 2002). Christians et al (2001) have argued that the communitarian approach (a values-centered approach) offers an alternative to dualistic and "objective" coverage and provides a platform for pluralistic reporting, which eschews privileging in favor of equity (Andersen 1997). We argue that through the example of coverage of scientific controversies such as Kennewick Man, we begin to chip away at the assumptions that science and journalism are morally neutral and that the two ways of knowing (scientific and cultural rationality) are not truly oppositional.…”

Somehow They Are Never Horny!

“…Through the production of text and context on others, HCI researchers engender and enable specific discursive subjectivities such as users, consumers, participants, hackers, etc in their writings. Such discursive subjectivities are constituted through "the ways in which discursive practice frames individual subjectivities within larger social environment" [1]. Further, production of discursive subjectivities through research writing is contingent on existing paradigms in the field i.e.…”