I am the daughter of three different engineers: one architectural, one aeronautical, and one electrical. As a kid I became fascinated with pictures in old college textbooks like Strength of Materials, Thickness Design, Electrical Engineering, Differential Equations, Visions of Symmetry and others that peppered the bookshelf. Though I couldn’t really fully understand or “read” them, the drawings of basic principles of stability, strength, structure, design, materials, systems, and transmission seemed to impart some...

This project compares journalistic framing with other kinds of information transmission systems and makes the analogy that information communication between two minds is similar to information communication infrastructure. Like metaphor, journalistic framing is a way of communicating such that both sender and receiver see the message clearly. In journalism, the message is always supposed to be the inarguable truth of an event. But, as they work, journalists and writers make myriad choices about...