Across Europe, most people will nowadays accept that human activity is causing climate change and that we need to do something about it. However, this is clearly not the case in the US, and the way in which the perception of climate change evolved there reveals a serious problem in science communication. As communications researcher Matthew Nisbet from the American University at Washington, DC ...

Smartphone users visit application marketplaces (or app stores) to search and install applications. However, these app stores are not free from privacy-invasive apps, which collect personal information without sufficient disclosure or people’s consent. To nudge people away from privacy-invasive apps, we created a visual representation of the mobile app’s privacy rating. Inspired by “Framing Eff...

Questions of participant understanding of the nature of an activity have been addressed in anthropology and sociolinguistics with the concepts of frames and framing. For example, a student may frame a learning activity as an opportunity for sensemaking or as an assignment to fill out a worksheet. The student’s understanding of the nature of the activity affects what she notices, what knowledge ...

• Linguistic instruments in knowledge engineering, Tilburg 1991; • Knowledge sharing and reuse, ECAI’92, Vienna 1992; • International workshop on formal ontology in conceptual analysis and knowledge representation, Padua 1993; • Knowledge sharing and information interchange, IJCAI’93, Chambery 1993; • Parts and wholes: conceptual part-whole relations and formal mereology, ECAI’94, Amsterdam 199...

I present a simple framework for modeling two-firm market competition, where each firm chooses a market alternative as well as a costless “marketing message”. Consumers follow a frame-dependent choice function, where the frame is a probabilistic function of the firms’ marketing messages. This framework embeds several recent models in the literature on markets with boundedly rational consumers. ...

We describe the first version of the Media Frames Corpus: several thousand news articles on three policy issues, annotated in terms of media framing. We motivate framing as a phenomenon of study for computational linguistics and describe our annotation process.