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Our September Special Issue: ‘PR and Social Justice: Interdisciplinary Reflections and Future Directions on the Impact of Public Relations and Promotional Communication on Human Rights and Social Inequalities’ is published journals.sagepub.com/toc/pri/curr...
Nagapushpa Devendra’s article on Gulf sport diplomacy [free] is part of our forthcoming #PRinMENA special issue
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Soft power or geoeconomic contest? A comparative study of gulf sport diplomacy - Nagapushpa Devendra, 2025
In the 21st century, sports have become a key soft power tool, with terms like “sportswashing” critiquing Gulf states such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia for using m...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Nagapushpa Devendra’s article on Gulf sport diplomacy [free] is part of our forthcoming #PRinMENA special issue
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‘AI adoption in government public relations: Technology acceptance, social influence, and organizational dynamics in the UAE’ by Engy Khalil & Fatmah Arif Al-Ali #PRinMENA journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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‘AI adoption in government public relations: Technology acceptance, social influence, and organizational dynamics in the UAE’ by Engy Khalil & Fatmah Arif Al-Ali #PRinMENA journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
‘Integrating cultural safety into public relations’ by Maryam Folarin & Lukasz Swiatek argues for a significant shift in culturally oriented public relations practice and theory by placing individuals and listening at the heart of public relations efforts
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‘Integrating cultural safety into public relations’ by Maryam Folarin & Lukasz Swiatek argues for a significant shift in culturally oriented public relations practice and theory by placing individuals and listening at the heart of public relations efforts
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Cristina Navarro, Rana AlOmari, Rasha Alyaquob &
Mariam Alkazemi found job satisfaction shapes perceptions of professionalism more than years of experience in this research mapping PR development in Jordan, Kuwait & Bahrain for our #PRinMENA special issue
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Mariam Alkazemi found job satisfaction shapes perceptions of professionalism more than years of experience in this research mapping PR development in Jordan, Kuwait & Bahrain for our #PRinMENA special issue
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September 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Cristina Navarro, Rana AlOmari, Rasha Alyaquob &
Mariam Alkazemi found job satisfaction shapes perceptions of professionalism more than years of experience in this research mapping PR development in Jordan, Kuwait & Bahrain for our #PRinMENA special issue
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Mariam Alkazemi found job satisfaction shapes perceptions of professionalism more than years of experience in this research mapping PR development in Jordan, Kuwait & Bahrain for our #PRinMENA special issue
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🔔 ‘The socio-ecological costs of AI: Toward socially responsible and sustainable communication practices’ by Emma Christensen #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The socio-ecological costs of AI: Toward socially responsible and sustainable communication practices - Emma Christensen, 2025
The adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) among communication practitioners and researchers surged after the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. ...
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September 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
🔔 ‘The socio-ecological costs of AI: Toward socially responsible and sustainable communication practices’ by Emma Christensen #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Our September Special Issue: ‘PR and Social Justice: Interdisciplinary Reflections and Future Directions on the Impact of Public Relations and Promotional Communication on Human Rights and Social Inequalities’ is published journals.sagepub.com/toc/pri/curr...
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can’t wait for this #FirstNations approaches to PR special issue of @prinquiry.bsky.social to be published - deadline for papers is Jan 2026
📣 CFP ‘First Nations approaches to public relations: Resisting colonialist legacies of communication’ special issue with guest editors Treena Clark Juli Holloway & Debashish Munshi - deadline 31 Jan 2026
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can’t wait for this #FirstNations approaches to PR special issue of @prinquiry.bsky.social to be published - deadline for papers is Jan 2026
📣 CFP ‘First Nations approaches to public relations: Resisting colonialist legacies of communication’ special issue with guest editors Treena Clark Juli Holloway & Debashish Munshi - deadline 31 Jan 2026
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August 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
📣 CFP ‘First Nations approaches to public relations: Resisting colonialist legacies of communication’ special issue with guest editors Treena Clark Juli Holloway & Debashish Munshi - deadline 31 Jan 2026
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new research from Laura L Lemon: an autoethnographic study reflecting on their experience overseeing employee engagement for faculty and staff
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August 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
new research from Laura L Lemon: an autoethnographic study reflecting on their experience overseeing employee engagement for faculty and staff
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new research on AI adoption in the UAE PR industry reveals the lack of culturally and linguistically localised AI tools & cultural resistance rooted in a preference for personal interaction limit AI’s widespread integration #PRinMENA journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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August 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
new research on AI adoption in the UAE PR industry reveals the lack of culturally and linguistically localised AI tools & cultural resistance rooted in a preference for personal interaction limit AI’s widespread integration #PRinMENA journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
new research from CK (Kay) Weaver & Franzisca Weder shows professional communicators are claiming narrative agency in sustainability & change contexts, focusing on ethics in the act of storytelling and dialogicality [open access] journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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July 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM
new research from CK (Kay) Weaver & Franzisca Weder shows professional communicators are claiming narrative agency in sustainability & change contexts, focusing on ethics in the act of storytelling and dialogicality [open access] journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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I’m also wearing my @prinquiry.bsky.social editor’s hat - happy to chat about research on critical PR and promotional culture #IAMCR2025
July 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I’m also wearing my @prinquiry.bsky.social editor’s hat - happy to chat about research on critical PR and promotional culture #IAMCR2025
‘Corporate social advocacy and reproductive rights: Analyzing public relations responses to Dobbs v. Jackson’ [$] new publication on CSA & reproductive rights in USA by Teresa Tackett, Josh C Bramlett @smquick.bsky.social & Amelia McKee journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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July 9, 2025 at 6:11 AM
‘Corporate social advocacy and reproductive rights: Analyzing public relations responses to Dobbs v. Jackson’ [$] new publication on CSA & reproductive rights in USA by Teresa Tackett, Josh C Bramlett @smquick.bsky.social & Amelia McKee journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
‘Bridging competency gaps in UAE government communication: Assessing skills, challenges, and professional development needs’ by Khayrat Ayyad, Ahmed Farouk Radwan, Engy Khalil, Shareefa Al-Marzooqi & Huda AlDah [$] #PRinMENA
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July 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
‘Bridging competency gaps in UAE government communication: Assessing skills, challenges, and professional development needs’ by Khayrat Ayyad, Ahmed Farouk Radwan, Engy Khalil, Shareefa Al-Marzooqi & Huda AlDah [$] #PRinMENA
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you can read our research ‘The Living Flame’🔥 [free] on energy promotion & the entanglement of gender, media history & promotional industries in @prinquiry.bsky.social
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The Living Flame: Energy, promotion and ‘natural’ gas in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s - Kate Fitch, Belinda Smaill, 2025
For most of the 20th century, energy transformations were promoted, and legitimated through diverse media and promotion. Much of this ‘energy media’ was generat...
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June 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
you can read our research ‘The Living Flame’🔥 [free] on energy promotion & the entanglement of gender, media history & promotional industries in @prinquiry.bsky.social
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Jenny Hou argues storytelling isn’t just a communication strategy or influence tactic—it’s an important participatory methodological approach in ‘Storytelling as methodology: Intersecting multicultural voices to decolonise PR’ [open access]
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July 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Jenny Hou argues storytelling isn’t just a communication strategy or influence tactic—it’s an important participatory methodological approach in ‘Storytelling as methodology: Intersecting multicultural voices to decolonise PR’ [open access]
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Tanya Muscat & @katharinawolf.bsky.social investigate the failure of Australia’s 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum, highlighting the complex interplay between recognition, misrecognition, & the silencing of marginalised voices journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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July 1, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Tanya Muscat & @katharinawolf.bsky.social investigate the failure of Australia’s 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum, highlighting the complex interplay between recognition, misrecognition, & the silencing of marginalised voices journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#PR scholars heading to #IAMCR25 - our journal editor @katefitch.bsky.social will be in Singapore so reach out if you would like to chat. We welcome critical, interpretative & interdisciplinary contributions on PR & society.
July 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
#PR scholars heading to #IAMCR25 - our journal editor @katefitch.bsky.social will be in Singapore so reach out if you would like to chat. We welcome critical, interpretative & interdisciplinary contributions on PR & society.
What is the role of promotional/PR practices in deeply divided societies (ie where the social cleavages are the result of political violence and conflict with ongoing trauma)? Prof Ian Somerville discusses his research with Prof Lee Edwards in this Q&A.
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Public relations in deeply divided societies: Challenges of social inclusion, deliberative democracy, and inequality, 2025
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July 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
What is the role of promotional/PR practices in deeply divided societies (ie where the social cleavages are the result of political violence and conflict with ongoing trauma)? Prof Ian Somerville discusses his research with Prof Lee Edwards in this Q&A.
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‘The Living Flame’ 🔥 by @katefitch.bsky.social & Belinda Smaill investigates the impact of promotional industries on environmental justice by analysing the promotion of ‘natural’ gas
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The Living Flame: Energy, promotion and ‘natural’ gas in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s - Kate Fitch, Belinda Smaill, 2025
For most of the 20th century, energy transformations were promoted, and legitimated through diverse media and promotion. Much of this ‘energy media’ was generat...
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June 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
‘The Living Flame’ 🔥 by @katefitch.bsky.social & Belinda Smaill investigates the impact of promotional industries on environmental justice by analysing the promotion of ‘natural’ gas
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Editorial: ‘ PR & Social Justice: Interdisciplinary Reflections & Future Directions on the Impact of PR & Promotional Communication on Human Rights & Social Inequalities’ by E.Ciszek, Lee Edwards @katefitch.bsky.social & Jenny Hou
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Public relations and social justice - E Ciszek, Lee Edwards, Kate Fitch, Jenny Hou, 2025
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June 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Editorial: ‘ PR & Social Justice: Interdisciplinary Reflections & Future Directions on the Impact of PR & Promotional Communication on Human Rights & Social Inequalities’ by E.Ciszek, Lee Edwards @katefitch.bsky.social & Jenny Hou
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Kidinfluencers, PR & human rights - new research by Catherine Archer & Kate Delmo journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Kidfluencers, public relations and human rights: An exploration of the impact on the human rights of children as social media influencers within public relations and promotional practice
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June 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Kidinfluencers, PR & human rights - new research by Catherine Archer & Kate Delmo journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Aeron Davis @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social argues promotional activity redefined housing as investable assets rather than a human right & influenced market-oriented public policy instead of state solutions to homelessness and inequality journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The contribution of promotional communication to the housing crisis in Aotearoa-New Zealand1 - Aeron Davis, 2025
This article focuses on public and policy discourse around housing; an issue relevant to human rights and social inequality. Growing homelessness conflicts with...
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June 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Aeron Davis @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social argues promotional activity redefined housing as investable assets rather than a human right & influenced market-oriented public policy instead of state solutions to homelessness and inequality journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Delighted to have last ever academic essay published in @prinquiry.bsky.social. On PR, culture and climate collapse. Thanks to @katefitch.bsky.social and all who made it possible
June 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Delighted to have last ever academic essay published in @prinquiry.bsky.social. On PR, culture and climate collapse. Thanks to @katefitch.bsky.social and all who made it possible
thought-provoking essay from Jo Fawkes reflecting on PR’s contribution to the climate emergency, from cultural and spiritual perspectives
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A deep adaptation agenda for public relations: Facing climate collapse - Johanna Fawkes, 2025
The essay considers public relations’ (PR) contribution to the climate emergency, from a cultural rather than organisational perspective. It suggests that PR ha...
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June 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
thought-provoking essay from Jo Fawkes reflecting on PR’s contribution to the climate emergency, from cultural and spiritual perspectives
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