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17 July 2019
International visiting scholarship in Fribourg: call for applications

The University of Fribourg’s Department of Communication and Media Research DCM is dedicated to research and teaching in the field of communication and media studies that adheres to the highest international standards. A fund raised by the department’s founding fathers Dr. Max Gressly and Dr. Florian Fleck allows the DCM to offer an international visiting scholarship for post-doctoral researchers and non-tenured professors.

As a trilingual institution (French, German, English) the University of Fribourg provides a truly international research environment with plenty of opportunities to share ideas. The scholarship, permitting a stay of two to three months, addresses young internationally-orientated scholars who are on a research or a sabbatical leave. Deadline for applications: September 30, 2019.

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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

3 July 2018
International visiting scholarship in Fribourg

The University of Fribourg’s Department of Communication and Media Research DCM is dedicated to research and teaching in the field of communication and media studies that adheres to the highest international standards. A fund raised by the department’s founding fathers Dr. Max Gressly and Dr. Florian Fleck allows the DCM to offer an international visiting scholarship for post-doctoral researchers and non-tenured professors.
As a trilingual institution (French, German, English) the University of Fribourg provides a truly international research environment with plenty of opportunities to share ideas. The scholarship, permitting a stay of two to three months, addresses young internationally-orientated scholars who are on a research or a sabbatical leave. Deadline for applications: September 30, 2018. More info

20 October 2017
The Best Papers presented at the EUPRERA congress in London

EUPRERA has awarded authors for their excellent research in strategic communication at the annual congress in London, on October 13. 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 University of the Arts London.

Academic awards for research on Internet memes, crisis responses, mediation of creativity, strategic recruitment communication
Press release (pdf)

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:

“Interactive creative criticism: Effects of Internet memes on stakeholder-company identification”, by Jens Seiffert-Brockmann and Trevor Diehl (University of Vienna, Austria). This paper tests the effects of memes critical to Samsung on stakeholder-identification in the wake of the Galaxy Note 7 battery explosion debacle. Memes are a prevalent form of interaction and creativity online, mostly due to the dominance of social media and popular websites like reddit, Imgur, and Instagram. Internet memes have become a new mode of popular public discourse in digital culture.
“The Influence of Social Media Comments on the Public’s Perspection of Crisis Responses”, by Michael Etter (City Univ. London, UK), Matthes Fleck and Roy Müller (Lucerne School of Business, Switzerland). This study contributes to the understanding of how user comments might compromise or benefit crisis response strategies, and hence, if and how organizations might adjust their crisis communication in Facebook as one “sub-arena”.
“Effects of Knowledge Transfer on the Mediation of Creativity. An Austrian Empirical Study comparing Three Types of Education”, by Astrid Spatzier and Jessica Breu (University of Salzburg, Austria). The research sheds light on the influences of knowledge transfer on the mediation of creativity through a quantitative study. Moreover, the paper highlights types of mediated knowledge that foster creativity.

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, awarded by Jesper Falkheimer, editor in chief of the journal, is:

“’Recruitainment’ and Social Media 3.0: Towards a New Paradigm of Strategic Recruitment Communication”, by Helle Kryger Aggerholm and Sophie Esmann Andersen (Aarhus University, Denmark). This paper shows how social media 3.0 can be strategically utilised in recruitment communication by merging the employer brand into relevant networks and communities outside traditional employment contexts.

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:
Chiara Valentini from Aarhus University, Denmark, who has contributed to careful, thorough and useful reviews.

Press release (pdf)

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