Michelle Gibbons publishes article in Argumentation and Advocacy journal
"Scientists use functional brain imaging technologies to produce images of the brain with highlighted regions indicating where the brain is working. Widely circulated in the media, these images are highly recognizable. In this essay, I show how functional brain images often argue differently, and even misleadingly, as they move from the scientific journal to the newspaper story. I propose argument frames as a way of understanding how and why these images appear as complex, mediated representations of brain activity in scientific journals but as visual proof of thought in the popular press."
Gibbons, Michelle G. “Seeing the Mind in the Matter: Functional Brain Imaging as Framed Visual Argument.” Argumentation and Advocacy 43 (2007): 175-188.
Michelle Gibbons is also awarded the Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship |
