This blog post is a part of the Social Science for Social Media Research Center at the Institute for Public Relations.
Convergence
As a public relations scholar researching social media and teaching an introductory communication course at the University
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For 15 years, I studied transnational crises from a theoretical perspective, which I have come to refer to as cross-national conflict shifts (CNCS). In that time, I never experienced a corporate crisis – caused by the decisions and actions of a global corporation – as full-blown a
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Last July, I attended my second International Public Relations Research Symposium or better known as BledCom. Located in Bled, Slovenia, the symposium is a fairly small and intimate experience with speakers from around the world. This year’s conference theme was “Sleeping (with the) media,” an intrigu
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What are the expectations and attitudes Americans have towards large companies? What are their perceptions of business relationships and how can large firms build and maintain the public’s trust? Are there some sectors more favored than others? These questions are important for large corporations to fully understand what
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Last week one of our Trustees and three members of the Measurement commission, participated in the PR News Measurement Hall of Fame Twitter Chat in celebration of AMEC’s Measurement Month. Linda Rutherford, VP for communications and outreach at Southwest Airlines joined Mark Weiner, ...
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In my previous blogs, I discussed how employees help create strategic value in top-performing companies. The strategic value of employees lies in them becoming “self-fulfilling oracles,” and encouraging this transformation. Employees are not only keen pr
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If you work in communication/communications/public relations or anything else we choose to call it (because we don’t exactly agree on terminology) and you love to quantify results (though we don’t exactly agree on how to do it) then this month is for you.
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Reputation is intangible, but fundamental for the existence of every modern organization. It includes the summative experience that key stakeholders have with an organization. In most cases, managers agree that reputation is vital to their company and employees are one of the key links to managing it. Initially, Dr. Charles F
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This summer, I participated in the 2015 International History of Public Relations Conference in Bournemouth, UK, and like Melissa Dodd...
This summer, I was selected as the 2015 Grunig PRIME Research Fellow and spent six weeks in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as an intern in one of the firm’s eight research centers. PRIME Research is a global research firm working with many of the world’s largest companies and brands on media content analysis.
At the beginning of m
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