This summary is provided by the IPR Organizational Communication Research Center Summary Among numerous contemporary threats, false information about a crisis has become increasingly detrimental to an organization’s crisis communication efforts. Incorrect information, labeled as fake news, misinformation, or disinformation, threatens an organization’s reputation, business continuity, and publics’ wellbeing. Crisis misinformation, if not contained or neutralized … Continue reading The Effects of Corrective Communication and Employee Backup on the Effectiveness of Fighting Crisis Misinformation
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In the age of social media, rumors have the power to spread more quickly than ever before—like the falsified storm models of Hurricane Irma predicting landfall in Houston while the city is still reeling from the effects of Harvey. One of these fake weather maps was spread on Facebook over 37,000 times in just 17 … Continue reading Rumor or Rescue? The Influence of Social Media During Hurricane Season →

This is the third in a series of blog posts sponsored by the Social Science for Social Media Research Center at the Institute for Public Relations. When Joseph Campbell talked about the power of myth, he described the vast mystery of our human life that lies fathomless underneath the surface of ocean: It can be … Continue reading “When You Are Falling…Dive” – A Psychological Approach to Understanding Conflicts and Crises on Social Media →

Briones, Rowena L.; Kuch, Beth; Fisher Liu, Brooke & Jin, Yan. (2011). Keeping up with the digital age: How the American Red Cross uses social media to build relationships. Public Relations Review, 27, 37-43. Forty individuals from the American Red Cross were interviewed to explore the use of social media in communicating with key publics. … Continue reading Keeping up with the digital age: How the American Red Cross uses social media to build relationships →
Topic: Emotional Leadership and Trust Author(s), Title and Publication Jin, Y. (2010). Emotional Leadership as a Key Dimension of Public Relations Leadership: A National Survey of Public Relations Leaders. Journal of Public Relations Research, 22(2), 159-181. Summary One of the most important yet least studied leadership skills is the role of emotion in public relations … Continue reading Emotional Leadership as a Key Dimension of Public Relations Leadership: A National Survey of Public Relations Leaders →

Extending current theories in crisis communication, the authors have developed a new model called the Integrated Crisis Mapping model (ICM) aimed at understanding the diverse and varied emotions likely to be experienced by the key stakeholders in crises. Dominant emotions in the ICM model are extrapolated on two continua, the publics’ coping strategy and the … Continue reading Final Stage Development of the Integrated Crisis Mapping (ICM) Model in Crisis Communication →