Category Archives: news bias

Authenticity and Hollywood

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

The Oscars generated feelings of authenticity for me, although, to be truthful, I am often consumed with issues of authenticity.

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Good News, Bad News

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

The science writer for the Oregonian, Joe Rojas-Burke, wrote a story yesterday about framing and health, the focus of my research and writing.

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Busting Myths

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

I’m ready to make good on a promise. It all started in graduate school. My myths were busted my first term at Cornell when my professors destroyed our stereotypes of mass media influences.

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Indian as Suitcase

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

As I was preparing for this week’s campus-wide lecture, I realized the histories and narratives of Indians in North America are like the content s of a suitcase.

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Skulls and Baseballs

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

I started thinking about bones when grad student Erin Dysart Hanes and I began following the news coverage of Kennewick Man.

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Making Meaning

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

I want to return to meaning-making and, again, thank you for letting me think out loud.

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Thinking Out Loud

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

I hope you’ll bear with me as I struggle over the application of my work and think out loud.

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The identity dialectic

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

How is identity formed? In the past few months I’ve been consumed with writing about identity. Often it seems the more I read the less I know, but I carry on despite my deficits.

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Owning the past

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

“And the scientists cannot accept the fact that just because it’s not written down in a book, it’s not fact. It’s fact to me, because I live it every day.” Continue reading →

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When some values prevail and others fail

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Scientific supremacy Writing a book chapter on mass media and American Indians brings sharply into focus our western love of science.

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