Such a phenomenon might be bad; it might be good, and desirable; it might be neutral; it would depend on the particulars. I can imagine two different people coming up with a characterization of something that they each called “frame control”, but with the two descriptions being of two totally different (perhaps largely unrelated!) phenomena—and one of these might be clearly good, one clearly bad, etc.
My guess is the ‘natural’ version of frame control is neutral, and is mostly about interpersonal dependency. (That is, what Alice thinks about X is downstream of what Bob thinks about X, and we can look at the mechanisms by which the influence flows.) There’s then another natural distinction into the various sorts of influence relationships, some of which are mutualistic (“leadership”) and some of which are predatory or exploitative or simply destructive, and in order to differentiate between those you need a large and complicated theory of ethics and interpersonal relationships, and these things will be interdependent. (Whether or not something counts as an ‘attack’ might depend on the relationship between two of the parties, but you might want to figure out their relationship by counting up the number of attacks.)
You can probably imagine an employer-employee relationship that’s good for both parties, and then smoothly vary features until you get a relationship that’s only good for one party, and continue varying features until you get a relationship that’s good for neither party. There will be some areas where you’re uncertain in between the areas where you’re certain, and probably substantial disagreement between observers on where those boundaries actually are.
This all seems reasonable. I don’t know that it would be particularly productive to use the phrase “frame control” to refer to any of the things you’re describing, or to think of them in terms of “frames”, etc. But yes, there are clearly various phenomena, more or less related to things mentioned in the OP, that do exist / occur (and I think your brief sketch shows something like the right direction in which to explore them, were we inclined to do so).
My guess is the ‘natural’ version of frame control is neutral, and is mostly about interpersonal dependency. (That is, what Alice thinks about X is downstream of what Bob thinks about X, and we can look at the mechanisms by which the influence flows.) There’s then another natural distinction into the various sorts of influence relationships, some of which are mutualistic (“leadership”) and some of which are predatory or exploitative or simply destructive, and in order to differentiate between those you need a large and complicated theory of ethics and interpersonal relationships, and these things will be interdependent. (Whether or not something counts as an ‘attack’ might depend on the relationship between two of the parties, but you might want to figure out their relationship by counting up the number of attacks.)
You can probably imagine an employer-employee relationship that’s good for both parties, and then smoothly vary features until you get a relationship that’s only good for one party, and continue varying features until you get a relationship that’s good for neither party. There will be some areas where you’re uncertain in between the areas where you’re certain, and probably substantial disagreement between observers on where those boundaries actually are.
This all seems reasonable. I don’t know that it would be particularly productive to use the phrase “frame control” to refer to any of the things you’re describing, or to think of them in terms of “frames”, etc. But yes, there are clearly various phenomena, more or less related to things mentioned in the OP, that do exist / occur (and I think your brief sketch shows something like the right direction in which to explore them, were we inclined to do so).