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[[File:Coffer-illusion.jpg|alt=Coffer Illusion|center]] | [[File:Coffer-illusion.jpg|alt=Coffer Illusion|center]] | ||
If you cannot see, the circles, let me tell you I am an astrophysicist and there are definitely 16 circles in the above image. | |||
== Framing in Politics == | |||
[[File:Political framing.jpg|alt=Political framing|thumb|Political framing]] | [[File:Political framing.jpg|alt=Political framing|thumb|Political framing]] | ||
So that's framing in theory but how does it distort reality? Framing involves the social construction of a social phenomenon – by mass media sources, political or social movements, political leaders, or other actors and organizations. Participation in a language community necessarily influences an individual's ''perception'' of the meanings attributed to words or phrases. Politically, the language communities of advertising, religion, and mass media are highly contested, whereas framing in less-sharply defended language communities might evolve imperceptibly and organically over cultural time frames, with fewer overt modes of disputation. | |||
[[File:Left and Right defined in the US.png|thumb|Left and Right defined in the US (click to expand)]] | [[File:Left and Right defined in the US.png|thumb|Left and Right defined in the US (click to expand)]] | ||
It is difficult to pinpoint precisely exactly what Left and Right stand for they are very generalist terms<ref>https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/08/14/left-wing-vs-right-wing-its-complicated</ref>. The image to the right shows a general breakdown of what this is considered to be in the US, however to concretely state that the left believes in on policy and the right believes in another is a supposition. | It is difficult to pinpoint precisely exactly what Left and Right stand for they are very generalist terms<ref>https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/08/14/left-wing-vs-right-wing-its-complicated</ref>. The image to the right shows a general breakdown of what this is considered to be in the US, however to concretely state that the left believes in on policy and the right believes in another is a supposition. | ||