A mediated dissertation on crisis coverage
Traditional news vs. social media: what’s different? Guest post by Bob Conrad, PhD, APR Picking a dissertation topic is not for the faint of heart or the unprepared. Narrowing an…
Obama losing control of his narrative? Then why is Berlusconi successfully holding his?
It seems that, during his first year in office, President Obama is progressively losing control of his narrative. It also seems that Italy’s Berlusconi is, instead, holding on to his…
Talibans implementing an apparently effective public relations campaign in Afghanistan, reports the New York Times.
This morning's edition of the New York Times carries on it's front page an enligthening article by Alissa Rubin on the Taliban's public relations campaign in Afhganistan, casting a well…
Tackling social migration tensions with the architectural and the generic principles and specific applications concepts of public relations
You might have read these last few days of the serious social crisis developed in the southern Italian city of Rosarno in the region of Calabria, where an exasperated local…
A year end invitation to discuss the global public relations attack against Google
I have no personal gripe with Google If anything, as an intense yet only partial user of its many and increasing services, I am a satisfied consumer of Google. This…
Action diplomacy, just like action PR
As I was reading the thoughtful article by Carne Ross in Europe’s World on the need to re-think national diplomacy, I was struck by the parallels with discussions of the…
On Berlusconi again: when advertising and information find a synthesis and fiction becomes the only reality
Some of my international friends and colleagues have been probing me in these weeks to try and rationalise, from a communicational perspective, what is going on in my country. A…
Culture and Public Relations: a letter from Bled, Slovenia
As many of our visitors know, Bled is a small and lovely Slovenian town on the shores of a charming lake where, for 16 consecutive years, a trio of committed…
Lies, Damn Lies and Twitter
When used properly, statistics can be very informative. However, some statistics are meaningless, and some are dishonest. Interpreting statistics requires some technical knowledge, and most people do not have the…
The ethical state, social communication and public relations…
How effective are social communication campaigns, specifically when they are enacted by public institutions and their aim is to con-vince publics to modify their day-to-day behaviours? The amount of literature…