Probing Narrative Cognition: How Policy Elites and the General Public Internalize Competing Policy Narratives on Hydraulic Fracturing

• In Event: Cultural Theory Working Group: Attention as Currency in the Information Age: Constructing, Consuming, and Comparing Policy Narratives.

Brief Overview

In this paper we seek to understand how policy elites and the general public internalize competing policy narratives on hydraulic fracturing in a comparative manner, while focusing on identifying their unique cognitive patterns of semantic elements.

Authors

• Rachael M. Moyer, University of Arkansas

• Geoboo Song, University of Arkansas

• Michael D. Jones, Oregon State University