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Frame Structures: How Strategic Frames Shape Perception, Legitimacy, and Belief

by Chris Cathey
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798185266823
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 512
  • Original Price: GBP 48.94
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1175 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

Frame Structures is a field guide to one of the most powerful forces shaping public belief: the frame.

Before people argue about facts, policy, war, crisis, justice, security, corruption, freedom, or legitimacy, they are usually already inside a structure that tells them what kind of situation they are looking at. That structure is the frame.

In this book, Chris Cathey explains how frames organize perception before debate begins. A frame determines what is visible, what is ignored, what is emphasized, what is minimized, who is treated as victim or villain, what evidence matters, and what conclusion feels reasonable.

This is not a book about slogans or spin. It treats framing as a system of cognitive power with components, functions, deployment channels, failure modes, and countermeasures. The book gives readers a practical taxonomy of frame types, including threat frames, justice frames, safety frames, corruption frames, legitimacy frames, censorship frames, free speech frames, security frames, privacy frames, progress frames, revolution frames, propaganda frames, disinformation frames, and compound frame systems.

Inside, you will learn how to:

Identify the frame behind an argument
Recognize how perception is organized before facts are evaluated
Understand why facts alone often fail against a strong frame
Detect hostile framing in politics, media, institutions, activism, and digital platforms
Analyze how frames assign roles, moral charge, causality, and acceptable responses
Build stronger counter-frames without falling into the opponent's structure

Frame Structures is written for analysts, communicators, strategists, researchers, writers, citizens, and anyone who wants to understand how belief is shaped before persuasion even begins.

Whoever controls the frame controls much of what follows.

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