Public Relations / / ed. by Chiara Valentini.

What is public relations? What do public relations professionals do? And what are the theoretical underpinnings that drive the discipline? This handbook provides an up-to-date overview of one of the most contested communication professions. The volume is structured to take readers on a journey to ex...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Handbooks of Communication Science , 27
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 642 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Public relations and social influence: Understanding the
  • roots of a contested profession
  • Part I – Public Relations: History, Identity and Practice
  • 2 Public relations origins and evolution: A global
  • perspective
  • 3 Women in public relations: A feminist perspective
  • 4 Public relations and the problems of professional
  • identity
  • 5 Public relations as a reflective practice
  • 6 Public relations and legitimacy
  • 7 Public relations, power and control
  • Part II – Core Functions of Public Relations
  • 8 Public relations as media relations
  • 9 Public relations and social media
  • 10 Public relations as image and reputation
  • management
  • 11 Strategic crisis management: State of the field,
  • challenges and opportunities
  • 12 Public relations for stakeholder and societal
  • engagement
  • 13 Social advocacy and public relations: Building
  • communitas in the public sphere
  • 14 Public relations measurement and evaluation
  • Part III – Theories of Public Relations
  • 15 The four models of public relations and their research
  • legacy
  • 16 The Excellence Theory – origins, contribution and
  • critique
  • 17 Personal influence in public relations
  • 18 Rhetorical theory of public relations
  • 19 Contingency theory of strategic conflict management:
  • Explicating a “grand” theory of public relations
  • 20 Global public relations: Multi-paradigmatic
  • perspectives, key approaches and future directions
  • 21 Relationship management: Status and theory
  • 22 Extending the boundaries of public relations through
  • community-building and organic theories
  • 23 Dialogic theory
  • 24 A conceptual genealogy of the situational theory of
  • problem solving: Reconceptualizing communication for strategic behavioral
  • communication management
  • Part IV – Recent Theorizing in Public Relations
  • 25 The strategic application of social capital theory in
  • public relations
  • 26 Ideas of public relations in the light of Scandinavian
  • institutionalism
  • 27 Public relations and Actor-Network Theory
  • 28 Public relations and expectation theory: Introducing
  • Relationship Expectation Theory (RET) for public relations
  • 29 Public relations and cultural theories
  • 30 Ethical theories and public relations: Global issues and
  • challenges
  • Afterwords
  • 31 Critical reflections on the field
  • 32 Mapping public relations theory: Concluding reflections
  • and future directions
  • Contributors to this volume
  • Index