Pub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1177/2046147x241286557
Alison Stieven-Taylor
{"title":"Book Review: Visual citizenship: Communicating political opinions and emotions on social media","authors":"Alison Stieven-Taylor","doi":"10.1177/2046147x241286557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147x241286557","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44609,"journal":{"name":"Public Relations Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142249486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1177/2046147x241274851
Ahmed Farouk Radwan, Fatima Barakji, Jairo Lugo-Ocando
{"title":"Special issue of Public Relations Inquiry Public Relations in the Middle East and North Africa: Critical Perspectives","authors":"Ahmed Farouk Radwan, Fatima Barakji, Jairo Lugo-Ocando","doi":"10.1177/2046147x241274851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147x241274851","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44609,"journal":{"name":"Public Relations Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142186179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-31DOI: 10.1177/2046147x241274852
Lee Edwards, E Ciszek, Jenny Hou, Kate Fitch
{"title":"Special issue of Public Relations Inquiry PR and Social Justice: Interdisciplinary Reflections and Future Directions on the Impact of Public Relations and Promotional Communication on Human Rights and Social Inequalities","authors":"Lee Edwards, E Ciszek, Jenny Hou, Kate Fitch","doi":"10.1177/2046147x241274852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147x241274852","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44609,"journal":{"name":"Public Relations Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142186180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-20DOI: 10.1177/2046147x241266963
Joseph Giomboni
A textual analysis of PR News was conducted to understand the evolution of internship programs and explore how the industry articulates, rationalizes, and positions these workers as valuable sources of labor. This study featured articles about interns who were primarily participating in internships at colleges and universities in a U.S. context to consider the range of positions and professional development within the PR industry. A political economy of communication framework provides insights into potential exploitative working conditions and the dynamic power relationships between prospective workers and the organization. This relationship is constructed through trade publication texts that illustrate best practices for internship programs. In turn, interns may grant consent to potentially exploitative precarious work arrangements based on the specific conditions and perceived benefits at the worksite. This study argues that the PR industry began recruiting paid talent and developing skillsets until the economic recession led to a cost-benefit analysis of full-time entry-level workers. In addition, PR News discourses have the potential to create interoffice conflict when emerging workers adopt neoliberal motives to secure full-time employment but are confronted with internship programs rooted in administrative tasks. By understanding the texts that construct an emerging workforce, the PR industry can synergize development training programs, rather than contribute narratives that devalue both financially and professionally intern work.
{"title":"A political economy of communication analysis of PRNEWS: Intern status, skills, and conflict within the public relations industry","authors":"Joseph Giomboni","doi":"10.1177/2046147x241266963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147x241266963","url":null,"abstract":"A textual analysis of PR News was conducted to understand the evolution of internship programs and explore how the industry articulates, rationalizes, and positions these workers as valuable sources of labor. This study featured articles about interns who were primarily participating in internships at colleges and universities in a U.S. context to consider the range of positions and professional development within the PR industry. A political economy of communication framework provides insights into potential exploitative working conditions and the dynamic power relationships between prospective workers and the organization. This relationship is constructed through trade publication texts that illustrate best practices for internship programs. In turn, interns may grant consent to potentially exploitative precarious work arrangements based on the specific conditions and perceived benefits at the worksite. This study argues that the PR industry began recruiting paid talent and developing skillsets until the economic recession led to a cost-benefit analysis of full-time entry-level workers. In addition, PR News discourses have the potential to create interoffice conflict when emerging workers adopt neoliberal motives to secure full-time employment but are confronted with internship programs rooted in administrative tasks. By understanding the texts that construct an emerging workforce, the PR industry can synergize development training programs, rather than contribute narratives that devalue both financially and professionally intern work.","PeriodicalId":44609,"journal":{"name":"Public Relations Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141740071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-21DOI: 10.1177/2046147x241264039
Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen
This article explores educational public relations by analyzing publicity material that urged public school administrators and educators to adopt formal public relations programs in the 1920s and 1930s. This moment represents a critical juncture for the United States’ public schools, and understanding the motivations behind the push for publicity programs can help us better understand the diverse contexts in which public relations strategies and tactics have been deployed. This study addresses the call for public relations history to broaden its scope of inquiry beyond corporate and political communication and allows for a more complete historical picture of public relations as a field.
{"title":"Selling schools: U.S. educational publicity in the early twentieth century","authors":"Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen","doi":"10.1177/2046147x241264039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147x241264039","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores educational public relations by analyzing publicity material that urged public school administrators and educators to adopt formal public relations programs in the 1920s and 1930s. This moment represents a critical juncture for the United States’ public schools, and understanding the motivations behind the push for publicity programs can help us better understand the diverse contexts in which public relations strategies and tactics have been deployed. This study addresses the call for public relations history to broaden its scope of inquiry beyond corporate and political communication and allows for a more complete historical picture of public relations as a field.","PeriodicalId":44609,"journal":{"name":"Public Relations Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141509909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1177/2046147x241256516
Derek Moscato
Through the lens of Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic pentad, this study examines the role of the city as a consequential forum for environmental activists—providing efficient and dynamic platforms of expression and contestation and opportunities for public communication outreach. Building on the view of urbanist Jane Jacobs that cities only reach their democratic potential when they are inclusive, responsive, and created by all, the metropolis is explored in terms of both its viability and untapped potential for activist communicators. This study also builds upon previous research asserting the city as both a site of continuous transformation and communication conduit for social change. In this context, cities provide a key platform for public communication practitioners and audiences, as well as for exploring environmental advocacy as a socio-cultural practice. Such a platform also aligns with the argument for the role of public relations as a vehicle for relationship cultivation, organizational participation in public life, and democratic dialogue. This study ultimately establishes a popular environmental dramatism that forges the geography of public relations to material and symbolic ecological change.
{"title":"All the city’s a stage: Greenpeace, #VWDarkside, and the popular appeals of urban climate activism","authors":"Derek Moscato","doi":"10.1177/2046147x241256516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147x241256516","url":null,"abstract":"Through the lens of Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic pentad, this study examines the role of the city as a consequential forum for environmental activists—providing efficient and dynamic platforms of expression and contestation and opportunities for public communication outreach. Building on the view of urbanist Jane Jacobs that cities only reach their democratic potential when they are inclusive, responsive, and created by all, the metropolis is explored in terms of both its viability and untapped potential for activist communicators. This study also builds upon previous research asserting the city as both a site of continuous transformation and communication conduit for social change. In this context, cities provide a key platform for public communication practitioners and audiences, as well as for exploring environmental advocacy as a socio-cultural practice. Such a platform also aligns with the argument for the role of public relations as a vehicle for relationship cultivation, organizational participation in public life, and democratic dialogue. This study ultimately establishes a popular environmental dramatism that forges the geography of public relations to material and symbolic ecological change.","PeriodicalId":44609,"journal":{"name":"Public Relations Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141193967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1177/2046147x241254555
Alenka Jelen, Kristin Demetrious, Kate Fitch
{"title":"Towards new directions in public relations activism and advocacy research","authors":"Alenka Jelen, Kristin Demetrious, Kate Fitch","doi":"10.1177/2046147x241254555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147x241254555","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44609,"journal":{"name":"Public Relations Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141165622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-27DOI: 10.1177/2046147x241251408
Prodromos Yannas, Amalia Triantafillidou
The purpose of this paper is to provide an historical narrative tracing precedents of Greek Public Relations (PR) practice as far back as the organizing of mega events in mid-nineteenth century culminating in the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. The analysis documents that PR activities are interwoven with Greek governments’ initiatives aimed at tourism promotion. The paper is based on archival material and secondary sources. Access was granted to the special collections of the National Library of Greece and the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive of the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation. Moreover, the study interrogates the three landmark events that ushered in the emergence of professional public relations in Greece in the early postwar period and supplements with important information the conventional accounts. The analysis established a PR-Tourism and National image promotion nexus that runs continuously throughout the period under examination, from the emergence of PR activities in mid-nineteenth century up until the early 1950s. The findings are based on the available written records. This historical review does not purport to be exhaustive and comprehensive. Future research could identify more PR-like activities worthy of mention. The study provides a springboard for investigating the precedents of PR practice in the pre-professionalization era. This investigation calls for an interdisciplinary perspective. This paper is the first one to trace precedents of professional PR practice to the second half the nineteenth century and the interwar period in Greece. It shows the interconnection of PR-like activities with tourism and underscores the prominent position of state agencies in those activities.
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