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4 October 2018

Join IPRA in Barcelona to celebrate excellence in PR, Oct. 18-19

The IPRA Golden World Awards for Excellence awards ceremony and Gala dinner will take place on Friday 19 October 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.
Before the Gala, on Thursday 18 October afternoon and Friday 19 morning, the PR conference “Voices” is taking place, hosted by Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations, the foremost Communication School in the country. Speakers are international and will be covering corporate diplomacy, risk and reputation as well as an insight into what makes for engaging digital presence.

More info and registration:
Voices conference
Gala dinner

2 October 2018

Institute for PR free webinar on Women's Leadership in PR, October 11

In this first part of a two-part study, KPMG and the Institute for Public Relations (IPR) conducted a series of focus groups with female and male executives and mid-level leaders in agencies and corporations to find out their views on mentorship, leadership, work-life integration, workplace policies, and their ascension to the top. Both groups gave solutions for how to boost women in leadership in the profession. The results may surprise you!
Join IPR President & CEO, Tina McCorkindale, and KPMG’s Megan Dubrowski and Rebecca Rickert on October 11 at 2pm ET, for a discussion of study insights, findings, and next steps.

More info and registration

2 October 2018

Awards for best research papers in public relations: EUPRERA and Emerald honor academics and practitioners from Europe

Aarhus, September 28, 2018 – EUPRERA has awarded authors for their excellent research in strategic communication at the EUPRERA annual congress in Aarhus, on September 28. The congress is known as the major gathering of scholars and professionals interested in advancing the profession of public relations and corporate communications on the continent, hosted this year by Aarhus University in Denmark.

Academic awards for research on
conversation analysis, conceptual heritage, online stakeholder dialogues

EUPRERA Best Paper Awards were given to the authors of three papers with the highest rankings in a two-stage, blind peer-review process performed by a scientific committee of renowned international scholars, headed by Stefania Romenti from IULM University in Milan, Italy. The three winning papers are:
““Big Ideas“ Emerging From a Microscopic Perspective. The Why and How of Conversation Analytic Thinking for Strategic Communication” by Christian Schwägerl.
Drawing on the theoretical framework of ethnomethodology (EM) and conversation analysis (CA), the paper reflects the majorly deterministic presupposition of “communication“ of this mainstay. CA methodology may detect the specifics of stakeholders’ speech varieties with which they construe and interpret their social worlds. Seeking to accomplish outcomes, strategic communication has to relate to these specifics. Strategizing and evaluating has to be attuned to the microscopic perspective of the reciprocity emerging in communicative processes. The paper closes with the thought that CA’s inductive, strictly data-based fine-grained analyses of the sequential organization of speaker turns elicit this emergence.
“The Conceptual Heritage of Public Relations: Using Public Memory to Explore Constraints and Liberation” by W. Timothy Coombs and Sherry Holladay.
This article is an eye opener bridging the past and the future, contextualizing key concepts from different perspectives which enriches the reflections both, academics and practitioners, should have while “working” on them. The authors take the right distance and keep a valuable and scientific objectivity when describing from the perspective of “conceptual heritage” how these three concepts emerged and how counter-narratives can (and do) challenge and enrich the dominant one. It is a very dense piece of work summarizing throughout a well-done reflection the academic developments of our field.
“Controlling Conversations: The Effects of Moderation Strategies in Online Stakeholder Dialogues”, by Alexander Buhmann, Kateryna Maltseva, Christian Fieseler, Matthes Fleck.
The paper extends recent research on online dialogic strategies by providing evidence of the actual effects of different types of online dialogue strategies on common CSR outcomes, through an experimental vignette methodology. The paper distinguishes between two fundamental styles of moderating online stakeholder dialogues, namely: controlled conversations and crowdsourced conversations. This paper adds to building theory on the dialogic potential of online media by offering insights into the varying effects of stakeholder communication strategies in social media dialogues.
Moreover, Emerald Group Publishing, publisher of Journal of Communication Management, presented the yearly Emerald Professional Impact Award for the best research-based paper that is not only academically sound, but which makes an important and useful contribution to the practice of communication management. The paper addresses issues of current concern to managers and also successfully discusses the research’s implications to managers and for practice. The winning paper is:
“Communicating the Corporate Strategy: An International Benchmark Study in the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany”, by Karolin Köhler, Ansgar Zerfass.
Strong methodology offering opportunities for both future academic and practice-oriented reflections.
It is very interesting to read about these 3 conceptual approaches: strategic communication, communication strategy and strategy communication, to differentiate, position and embed yours, allowing the conjunction of multiplication as well as conveyance and interpretation.

Special recognition to the best reviewer

EUPRERA Best Reviewer Award recognizes the work done by the reviewer because it is an essential contribution to the quality and the success of the annual congress. The scientific committee identified as this year’s winner:
Anne-Marie Cotton from Arteveldehogheschool, Ghent, Belgium who has contributed to careful, thorough and useful reviews.

More info:
Virginia Villa, dpra@euprera.org

17 September 2018

Call for Papers: Academicus Journal

The Academicus International Scientific Journal invites submissions for the issue n. 19, January 2019. Authors are invited to send their full papers by November 30 at info@academicus.edu.al or by uploading directly at the “Authors” category.
Submission received after the deadline shall be considered for the next volume. Go to the Call for Papers

12 September 2018

Opportunity for Erasmus students

The Berlin Global Voluntary Internship Project (2018-20) aims to enable students to engage in cultural diplomacy and in doing so, to further promote cultural diplomacy and multiculturalism worldwide.
The Berlin Global invites applications, by December 31, 2018, from individuals who are coming from different fields, including Communication and Public Relations. The internship is open to currently enrolled students who need this experience as a compulsory component of their academic studies or participants of the ERASMUS program. More info

10 September 2018

Conference IPRPRIME18

Senior and emerging corporate and brand communicators are invited to attend the Strategic Communication & Research Conference co-sponsored by PRIME Research and the Institute for Public Relations, to be held on September 13 in Atlanta, USA. Attendees will learn how to improve their return on PR investment using strategic research. More info

6 September 2018

Call for Papers on Theories in Public Relations: forthcoming deadline on September 15!

Public Relations Inquiry, Special Issue
Theories in Public Relations: Reflections and Future Directions

The field of public relations has grown in the last thirty years both academically and professionally, and it is now a specialised, applied communication discipline. Most scholars and practitioners would agree that public relations is primarily a strategic organizational function that nurtures positive relationships with publics and stakeholders
for organizations of all kinds: private, public, non-profit, activist, advocacy etc. However, some have taken a broader view of both public relations and the organisations it works for, focusing on their role as interventions in social, cultural and political environments. As a result, the theoretical landscape of public relations has expanded beyond its organisational origins.
Despite increasing theoretical depth, however, the quality and significance of public relations’ theoretical contributions are disputed and its discrete body of knowledge and stock of theories have received little recognition outside the specific disciplinary domain. Public relations scholars tend to agree that this is an interdisciplinary field and that many studies in public relations are rooted in diverse communication, sociological, cultural, managerial, and organizational knowledge. Almost all established theories in public relations come from a wider field and/or have borrowed concepts and understandings and adapted them to public relations questions. Yet, to enjoy greater recognition and academic legitmacy, the theoretical contributions of public relations as a field in its own right must be able to both stand alone and contribute to fields beyond disciplinary boundaries.
For this special issue, we seek papers that provide an in-depth reflection on the quality and significance of theoretical development in public relations scholarship. The aim is to discuss and reflect on what might be considered as current theories of public relations and theories for public relations, as well as emerging bodies of work that are changing the shape of the field. Scholars might consider their use, their ability to answer research questions of fundamental importance for the profession, their relevance to today’s global problems, and the exploratory avenues of scholarship that could form the basis of new theorizing. Examples of questions that are of relevance to the special issues are:

What can be considered a classical or emergent public relations theory?
What are the field’s grand theories and middle-range theories? How do they shape our thinking?
What are the emergent theories that can (re)define public relations?
What types of problems has public relations addressed and through which theoretical lenses has it addressed them? Do these approaches remain adequate? How might they evolve?
Are there fundamental research questions capable of yielding theoretical development?
Why do public relations theories have limited impact beyond the field?
How does public relations theory need to evolve in order to become more widely recognised in organisational, media and communication fields of scholarship?

Submissions

We welcome both conceptual papers that contribute to building a broader picture of public relations theory, as well as empirical papers that provide a basis for theoretical and conceptual discussions. In line with the interdisciplinary nature of the journal, we welcome a wide range of theoretical perspectives representing the whole spectrum of opinions in the field.
All submissions will be blind-reviewed in line with the standard practice of the journal. If you have any questions regarding the special issue, please contact the editors Chiara Valentini (c.valentini@mgmt.au.dk) or Lee Edwards (l.edwards2@lse.ac.uk).

Deadlines

Papers should be submitted by 15 September 2018 via the journal’s manuscript central submissions system. Please visit the journal website for full submission instructioons, including information about word length, format and referencing style. Papers should adhere to the guidelines and risk being rejected if they do not. The target publication date for the special issue is September 2019.

3 September 2018

Announced the finalists of the Master Thesis Award for Excellence

Out of 19 applications from 11 different countries, the Jury, together with a panel of 24 expert reviewers, selected nine finalists for the Master Thesis Award for Excellence: three in the theoretical category and six in the practical one. The EUPRERA BoD, the award coordinator Alexander Buhmann and the jurors congratulate these promising graduates on the outstanding academic work done so far.
Winners of each category will be announced during the EUPRERA Congress in Aarhus, on September 29. 2018.
The Master Thesis Award for Excellence, run since 1995, is a celebration of PR academia and of the role performed by European Higher Education Institutions in the evolution of knowledge of this field. With this award, EUPRERA together with PRCA (Public Relations and Communications Association) and ICCO (International Communications Consultancy Organisation) want to honour and reward Master theses (MSc, MA and MPhil) that make a significant professional/practical or academic contribution to the field of Public Relations in Europe.

2018 Finalists

Theoretical Impact Award

Luisa Bißwanger, Value Creation through Thought Leadership. Theoretical fundamentals and empirical framework, supervisor Ansgar Zerfaß, University of Leipzig, Germany
Alexandra Joon, A Little Bird told me… Examining the Relevance of Social Media for Reputation Management in Dutch Hospitals, supervisor Vidhi Chaudhri, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Michael Odichi-Dan Ugorji, Brexiting through the Gates of Trumpism: The Machiavellian of Political Communication, supervisor David Bousquet, Université de Bourgogne, France

Practical Impact Award

Jenifer Boughey, Mind the Gap: Female Perceptions and Narratives of Women’s Journeys in Communications/PR, supervisor Ana Adi, Quadriga University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Lisa Grimmeiss, Towards a Lobbying Regulation – A comparative study on the efforts to implement a lobby register in the Republic of Ireland and the Federal Republic of Germany, supervisor Tom Clonan, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Andrei Ispasiu, The impact of racing video games in car image perception, supervisor Alexandra Crăciun, The University of Bucharest, Romania
Benedicte Nylund, Are you safe? Emergency communications on Facebook related to opinions, behaviours and attributes of the users. The use of Facebook and its ‘Safety check’ after the London terrorism attack on June 3rd 2017, supervisor Mark Phillimore, University of Greenwich, UK
Lilli Pukka, From influencing to engaging: The role of communication in protecting endangered species, supervisor Laura Asunta, Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, Finland
Tom Salina, Framing Sustainability: Media Narratives of CSR in the Fashion Industry, supervisor Wim Elving, Hanzehogeschool Groningen / IULM Milan, Netherlands/Italy

3 September 2018

The International Encyclopedia of Strategic Communication

The International Encyclopedia of Strategic Communication, 3 Volume Set, published by Wiley-Blackwell. Editors in chief: Robert L. Heath, Winni Johansen. Associate editors: Jesper Falkheimer, Kirk Hallahan, Juliana Raupp, Benita Stein. Written with the support and editorial assistance of ICA (International Communication Association).
In recent years the field of strategic communication has evolved to be more holistic in its approach and its role within sociocultural contexts. Articles, textbooks, and handbooks have attempted to define the scope, purpose, and nature of the concept, but as the first major comprehensive work of its kind, this encyclopedia captures the full scope of contemporary theory and practice in strategic communication. A multidisciplinary team of authors share their insights and expertise within the four major areas of strategy, organization, management, and sociocultural impact. More info

29 August 2018

MARPE Diplo: an Erasmus+ project

The MARPE Network* is launching the 3 years’ project MARPE Diplo funded by Erasmus+ (September 2018 – August 2021) and endorsed by 11 strategic partners**. The project aims to explore Public, Corporate and Civic Diplomacy, an emerging discipline in the fields of international relations and communication sciences, political sciences and strategic studies, to research and to develop its wider applications in the context of business and civil society communication.
The objective is to develop a proper European perspective drawing on public sphere (Habermas) and network society influences (Castells) as there is an increasing need for showing more transparency and sensitivity over operations, processes and overall governance.
The EUPRERA project leader, Anne-Marie Cotton, will highlight how EUPRERA members can contribute to this new epistemic community during the EUPRERA Hour at our upcoming congress in Aarhus. More details on the MARPE Network platforms soon! Go to MARPE website

* The MARPE Network is composed of Université Lorraine, project leader; Artevelde University College, ISP-co-ordination; Universidade Lisboa ISCSP, Scientific co-ordination; Universidad Cardenal Herrera CEU, Communication & Dissemination; University Bucharest, Quality control & Evaluation.
** The 11 strategic partners include:

5 Professional PR associations: Associação Portuguesa de Comunicação de Empresa – APCE (PT), Corporate Excellence – Center for Reputation Leadership (SP), Chartered Institute of Public Relations – CIPR (UK), C² Square (B) and Asociatia Romana de Relatii Publice – ARRP (RO);
3 Knowledge organisations:
EUPRERA; GovLab, The Governance Laboratory @NYU and Protagoras (B) a Think Tank for researchers and practitioners in Political and Institutional communication;
2 independent researchers and one expert:
Roger Hayes: LKY School of Public Policy, NUS, Singapore; Bruno Asdourian: University of Fribourg and Pierluigi Puglia: Head of Press and Public Affairs – Spokesperson for the UK in Italy, British Embassy in Rome.

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