In today's competitive business landscape, having a strong public image is crucial for success. Whether you're a small startup or a large corporation, effective Public Relations (PR) can help you reach your target audience, build credibility and trust, and establish your brand as a leader in your industry. This book will provide you with insight into the importance of PR for brands, and offer practical advice on how to develop a successful PR strategy.
Public Relations and Social Theory broadens the theoretical scope of public relations through its application of the works of prominent social theorists to the study of public relations. The volume focuses on the work of key social theorists, including Jürgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann, Michel Foucault, Ulrich Beck, Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, Robert Putnam, Erving Goffman, Peter L. Berger, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Bruno Latour, Leon Mayhew, Dorothy Smith and Max Weber. Unique in its approach, the collection demonstrates how the theories of these scholars come to bear on the understanding of public relations as a social activity. Understanding public relations in its societal context entails a focus on such concepts as trust, legitimacy, understanding, and reflection, as well as on issues of power, behavior, and language. Each chapter is devoted to an individual theorist, providing an overview of that theorist’s key concepts and contributions, and exploring how these concepts can be applied to public relations as a practice. Each chapter also includes a box giving a short and concise presentation of the theorist, along with recommendation of key works and secondary literature. Overall, this volume will enhance understanding of theories and their applications in public relations, expanding the breadth and depth of the theoretic foundations of public relations. It will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students in public relations and strategic communication.
This book provides an introduction to public relations (PR) that employs pedagogical experiential learning models to assist students in developing the skills and competencies required by the PR industry. The book takes the reader on a journey from the theory and origins of PR, through to the structure of the PR profession and the more practical elements of how PR is practiced today. It devotes attention to the common competencies necessary for success as a communications professional, such as communication skills, critical thinking skills and business acumen, while giving due focus to the rapidly evolving new technologies and media that impact how organisations communicate. Featuring example cases from around the world, each chapter includes discussion topics and scenario-based questionnaires to encourage learning and assist students in developing key competencies. This book is ideal for undergraduate PR modules, particularly those with experiential and/or blended learning pedagogical approaches. It will also be useful to those in business seeking to gain a deeper understanding of communications. Situational Judgement Tests and sample press releases, presented as online resources, also accompany the book. Please visit www.routledge.com/9781032170435.
Explores how public relations' power is obtained, used and misused in terms of both process and outcomes. This book contains 10 case studies that provide examples of the breadth of perspectives and definitions of power.
Reputation is becoming an imperative business function that influences strategic decisions including the direction of a business plan and how an organization should be communicating with its stakeholders and publics. It is crucial for an organization to measure public relations outputs and outcomes as well as measuring established and developing relationships. Reputation Management Techniques in Public Relations is a critical scholarly resource that examines public relations strategies, such as employing media plans, determining communication channels, setting objectives, choosing the right promotional programs and message strategies, budgeting and assessing the overall effectiveness of a company’s public relations strategy. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as brand and customer communications, corporate social responsibility, and leadership, this book is geared towards practitioners, professionals, and scholars seeking current research on reputation management.
Internationally focused textbook to support Cambridge International AS and A Level Travel and Tourism, for first examination in 2017. Endorsed by Cambridge International Examinations, this second edition of Cambridge International AS and A Level Travel and Tourism has been fully updated for the Cambridge Syllabus (9395) for examination from 2017. Written by experienced authors in an engaging and accessible style, this Coursebook contains a wealth of internationally focussed case studies and links to the key concepts throughout. This book offers comprehensive coverage with an international perspective and in-depth analysis of topics.
Recognizing and emphasizing business and sociocultural influences, this is a timely and unique examination of public relations in the sport industry. Along with providing a broad and well-researched theoretical foundation, L’Etang embeds throughout the text relevant examples and strategic applications of Sports PR in practice. - Paul M. Pedersen, Indiana University "A cleverly integrated and dynamic text, Sports Public Relations offers incisive PR guidance for navigating sport’s vast industrial scale, intractable social impact, turbulent political arena, and insatiable entertainment appetite. This cutting-edge text tackles the sport mediascape with originality and poise, ensuring it will quickly become a must-read for any PR-savvy sport marketer." - Aaron Smith, RMIT University Sport is one of the world′s major businesses but it is also entertainment, celebrity, fandom and social cohesion, forming a central aspect of culture and communication. Public relations is part of the process at all levels, whether handling major sponsorship and media rights deals, events, promoting stars or increasing participation. This book: Explains how PR issues arise for sport and sports business and how PR approaches and thinking may be used to solve them. Shows how and when the sports industry needs PR experts. Explores the connection between strategy and communication as they apply to sport and PR. Teaches students strategic and critical thinking essential for PR work. Sports Public Relations is an essential guide for students in PR, sport studies, sport marketing and sport communication.
This open access book examines how creating a national brand assisted Qatar in absorbing the shock and awe following the outburst of the crisis with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates in May 2017. The authors discuss the country's diplomatic performance, which was characterized by five main factors that helped Qatar to deal with the crisis successfully. These factors include the failure of the element of surprise, years of building Qatar’s national brand, Qatar's arsenal of soft power, international alliances, and the opponents’ quandary. This book further scrutinizes Qatar’s role in the region and all questions related to this role through the lenses of its nation brand. The book provides explanations for the success of Qatar in absorbing the “shock and awe” in the early stage of the last Gulf crisis, presenting various arguments on how establishing a nation brand helped Qatar to deal with the crisis successfully. The book follows an original approach that views the Qatari case from a scientific perspective, investigating the art of nation branding. It will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of international relations, psychology, political science, and journalism, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of soft power, nation branding, Middle East studies, and diplomacy.
This new and fully-updated second edition of this acclaimed textbook offers a guide to public relations, spanning all aspects of PR work, including fashion, event management, crisis communications, politics, celebrity PR and corporate communications, and takes account of the rapid change in the PR industry. It It combines essential practical guidance with a thought-provoking analysis of this exciting but enigmatic industry, its ethical dilemmas and the role it plays in the contemporary world-not least its controversial but crucial relationship with the media. PR Today offers a fresh, lively and realistic perspective on its subject, based on the authors' rare combination of international top-level experience, insider knowledge and years of teaching and writing about PR. It will be invaluable for students taking public relations at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and essential reading for those seeking to start a career in this dynamic, fast-growing profession. New to this Edition: - Content has been fully updated throughout to ensure up-to-date overview of the topics at hand - Interviews with leading figures in PR and beyond - A thoroughly revised and expanded chapter on digital PR
This book is an essential read for anyone interested in Public Relations in Asia. Combining the latest in Public Relations theory with practical guidance on how to plan and structure a PR campaign and top tips on how to create successful PR campaigns, this book is also full of fascinating case histories from Asia and the rest of the world.
