Stories about USA
Culture Shot N° 7: Privacy
How does the US media look at privacy? Looking critically at stories around privacy from US Top Online News sources, it seems as though many feel that privacy may be under threat.
WordFrames: Are ‘Teens’ Getting a Bad Rap?
What do you think when you hear the word "teen"? For many people, teens are a complete mystery. We explore English-language media conversations around teens, adolescents, and youth in this post.
Culture Shot No. 6: Honor/honour
What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word honor / honour? A dive into US and Pakistani media.
Lone Wolves are ‘Terrorists’ Too
References to Muslims or Islam are common whether the story is about a lone wolf killer or a terrorist. We need to find better ways to characterize people who cause terror and a language that does justice to everyone touched by it.
Framespotting with Amy Zhang of MIT CSAIL
How do our moral values underpin our narratives, or frame our stories? We spoke with Amy Zhang, a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL), to learn more about moral framing.
Culture Shot No. 2: Generous
What does it mean to be generous? A look at recent media coverage using the term in the US and India.
Culture Shot No. 1: Culture
Culture Shots will look at how different communities, countries and languages report on culture as a bridge into—or way of looking at—similarities and difference in different communities’ ways of looking at the worlds. It seemed fitting to make our first “shot” about the word culture—or cultural—itself.
Fighting For, Not Fighting Against: Media Coverage and the Dakota Access Pipeline
Perhaps the news coverage reflects the state of our national inexperience with discussions over Native American sovereignty.
