# Folk theories of conceptual causality and collective autonomy

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-08-20-folk-theories-of-conceptual-causality

The piece challenges the news-diet metaphor by showing that audiences exercise political autonomy in ways that simple models of media causation cannot explain.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 20 August 2007

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Hermeneutic Heretic (web.archive.org)](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/20/folk-theories-of-conceptual-causality/)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 20 August 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: media, social-science, discourse-analysis, cognition, metaphor.

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