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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Setting the Stage -- Environmental Communication -- The Public Sphere and Social Discourse -- Mass Media, Interpretive Packages and Framing -- Examining Environmental Messages in Discourse -- Synopsis -- Chapter 2: The Arc of the Book -- Hegemony -- Examining Power -- Metaphysics: Indigenous Ontology and Epistemology -- Morality, Respect and Resilience -- What Is Meant by Respect? -- Synopsis -- Chapter 3: Buckshot for Brains: Cultivating the American Indian Mind -- Progress in the 1800s -- Philadelphia: A Hub for Science and Pseudoscience -- The Skull as a Virtual Personality Map -- Phrenological Characteristics of Humans -- The Appeal of Sciencing -- The Quantification of Race -- How Phrenology Cultivated the Native American Mind -- Synopsis -- Chapter 4: Black Hawk's Skull -- Final -- Black Hawk's Skull -- Phrenological Characteristics of Black Hawk: Combative and Animal Qualities -- Skull as Synecdoche -- Black Hawk's Skull Stolen -- Synopsis -- Chapter 5: The Kennewick Man Story -- Introduction -- The Skeleton's Doppelgänger -- DNA Studies Cement Authenticity -- Synopsis -- Chapter 6: Discourse and Resistance in the Kennewick Man Story -- Introduction -- The Current Study -- The Investigation -- The Findings -- Conflict Frame -- Authority Frame -- Ideological Frames -- Native American Knowledges, Traditions and Beliefs -- Knowledge and Tradition Frame -- Beliefs Frame -- Scientific Empiricism -- Evidence Frame -- Methods Frame -- Personification of Science -- Race Frame -- Intertextuality Frame -- Modern Actor Portrays Kennewick Man -- Skeleton as Treasure and Antiquity -- Pop Culture and Bitter History -- The Noble Savage -- Synopsis -- Chapter 7: How Sioux-Settler Relations Underscore the Dakota Access Pipeline -- The Black Snake -- Progress and Morality.

1. Introduction -- 2. Buckshot for Brains: Cultivation of the American Indian Mind -- 3. Hunting for Trophies and the Underbelly of Race -- 4. The Underpinnings of Discourse -- 5. We Came to Fight a Black Snake -- 6. How resistance crystallized to resilience in the Kennewick Man controversy -- 7. Concluding Remarks.

The study described in this article examines the influences of mass media, interpersonal channels, and self-efficacy on risk judgment, using data from a sample of New York State residents. Risk judgment is conceptualized on two distinct domains: personal-level risk judgment and social-level risk judgment. The health and risk communication literature suggests that mass media channels are more likely to influence social-level risk judgment, and the current study bears out this hypothesis. But, unlike typical findings, personal-level risk was found to be influenced, to some degree, by mass media channels. Interpersonal channels account for a portion of the variance on social-level risk judgment, as does self-efficacy. The health risks examined include heart disease, AIDS, smoking, and hazards from drinking water, household radon, chemicals on food, household chemicals, and low-level radioactive waste.

This study examines mainstream news coverage of the direct-to-consumer advertising phenomenon since FDA deregulation of such ads in 1997, and helps illuminate framing of stakeholder claims. The authors found that prominent frames describe drawbacks and benefits of DTC ads in addition to power relationships between the Food and Drug Administration and drug companies. Sources most likely to be quoted were representatives of the pharmaceutical industry. The authors argue that issues such as consumer interests and ethics are overshadowed by special interests, and that balanced coverage is narrow in scope. The authors use both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine frames in-depth and to explore relationships among frames.

Despite the widespread conviction that the mass media tend to "blow risks out of proportion," the question has received little systematic attention. The mass‐media literature also presents the opposite argument, namely that the media minimize the kinds of reporting that might upset large‐scale capitalistic industries. Still other perspectives hold, on the one hand, that media reports tend to have more subtle anti‐technology effects, created by "even‐handed" coverage and on the other hand, that reporters give "establishment" figures the opportunity to "keynote" or "put the facts in perspective" in ways that exert a subtly pro‐technology effect. Drawing on a systematic sample of 128 hazard events developed by researchers at another university and factually summarized by Lexis‐Nexis, we analyze the effects of emotionalism on actual levels of coverage; a variety of analyses show that the only variables to exert significant effects are those that involve objective information, such as the number of casualties or the level of damage created. Given the argument that the effects of emotionalism can be conveyed in ways that are largely independent of the facts, e.g., by headlines, photographs, and "loaded" words, we next compare the emotionalism conveyed by factual summaries vs. the original stories and headlines. Even for incidents involving nuclear and/or toxic hazards, we find the net effect of the full stories is to lessen the emotionalism. Overall, the hypothesis receiving strongest support is that the "keynoting" helps create an overall impression that the "responsible authorities" are acting more responsibly than might be assumed on the basis of factual summaries alone. The widespread impression within the technical community, while understandable, may well have as much to do with the selective perceptions of scientists and engineers as with the actual pattern of media reporting.