1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779718803321

Autore

Coombs W. Timothy

Titolo

It's not just PR [[electronic resource]] : public relations in society / / W. Timothy Coombs, Sherry J. Holladay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, c2014

ISBN

1-118-55404-3

1-118-55409-4

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Collana

New York Academy of Sciences

Classificazione

674

659.2

Altri autori (Persone)

HolladaySherry J

Disciplina

659.2

Soggetti

Public relations - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-158) and index

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

It's Not Just PR Public Relations in Society; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the Second Edition; 1 Does Society Need Public Relations?; Media Use and the Term "PR"; Criticisms of Public Relations; Popular press attacks on public relations; Common themes in critiques of public relations; Popular Press Books Describing the Importance of Public Relations; Positioning Public Relations; Social Media Revolution or Evolution?; Public Relations and the Marketplace of Ideas; Public Relations Literacy; Re-focusing Public Relations; Conclusion

2 Ethical Implications of Public Relations What Is Public Communication?; Ethical Responsibilities of PR as a Form of Public Communication; Ethical Perspectives; Professional Associations and Ethics; The Boundary spanning Role of the PR Professional; Tensions for PR Practitioners; Power Relationships; The Power of PR Professionals in the Corporation; A Postmodern Perspective on PR; Conclusion; 3 Who Practices Public Relations?; Corporate-centric Histories of Public Relations; Antagonistic Views of Corporations and Activists; Power and Marginalization

First Reform Era: Abolitionism and Temperance Public relations aspect; Second Reform Era: The Muckrakers; Public relations aspect; Saul Alinsky: Activism in the 1960's; Public relations aspect; Birth of Issues Management; Public relations aspect; Internet Activism: Going Digital;



Pre-social-media Internet activism; Post-social media Internet activism; Public relations aspect; Labor Unions and Public Relations; Public relations aspect; Conclusion; 4 Public Relations Influences Society; Issues Management: A Framework of Effects on Public Policy; EPA bans Alar under pressure

AMA's objection to national health insurance Local battles: retailing and healthcare; Shaping Public Behavior; Keep America Beautiful; Let's Move; Zombie Apocalypse; RED Campaign; Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft (INSM); Private Politics; Nestlé and Greenpeace; Starbucks and UK taxes; Mixing Policy, Social, and Private Changes: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Big Pharm; Conclusion; 5 Shifting the View of Public Relations; Reconsidering the Positioning of Public Relations: A Societal Focus; Revisiting the Definition of Public Relations

Conflict: Exercise and resistance of power through public relations Detox campaign: exercising influence through public relations; The UN places human rights on the corporate agenda; Where We Have Been; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the second edition of their award-winning book, W. Timothy Coombs and Sherry J. Holladay provide a broad and thorough look at the field of public relations in the world today and assess its positive and negative impact on society's values, knowledge, and perceptions. Uses a range of global, contemporary examples, from multi-national corporations through to the non-profit sector Updated to include discussion of new issues, such as the role and limitations of social media; the emergence of Issues Management; how private politics is shaping corporate behavior;



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973641603321

Titolo

Architecture and participation / / edited by Peter Blundell Jones, Doina Petrescu, Jeremy Till

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Spon, 2005

ISBN

1-134-37096-2

1-134-37097-0

1-280-10538-0

0-203-02286-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Blundell JonesPeter

PetrescuDoina

TillJeremy

Disciplina

720.103

Soggetti

Architecture - Human factors

Architects and community

Communication in architecture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Politics of Participation; 1 Architecture's Public; 2 The Negotiation of Hope; 3 Losing Control, Keeping Desire; 4 Mass Housing Cannot be Sustained; 5 Reinventing Public Participation: Planning in the Age of Consensus; 6 How Inhabitants can become Collective Developers: France 1968–2000; 7 City/democracy: Retrieving Citizenship; Histories of Participation; 8 Sixty-eight and After; 9 Fragments of Participation in Architecture, 1963–2000: Graz and Berlin; 10 Notes on Participation; 11 Kemal Ozcul's Acceptance Speech

12 Ozcul Postscript: The Gelsenkirchen School as BuiltPractices of Participation; 13 Animal Town Planning and Homeopathic Architecture; 14 What if?...A Narrative Process for Re-imagining the City; 15 Politics Beyond the White Cube; 16 Rights of Common: Ownership, Participation, Risk; 17 We Need Artists' Ways of Doing Things: A Critical Analysis of the Role of the Artist in Regeneration Practice; 18 Stalker and the Big G



Sommario/riassunto

Explores ways in which users may be involved in the design of their future environment. Contributors provide both theoretical approaches and concrete outcomes. The issue of participation has recently assumed great political importance. This book