Dr Martina Topic-Rutherford
martinatopic.bsky.social
Dr Martina Topic-Rutherford
@martinatopic.bsky.social
A behavioural sociologist & mass comms scholar. Croatian by birth, naturalised as British by choice. Associate professor in PR Leadership, UofAlabama, US. Former journalist, PR convert. Cat & book lover. All views are mine
A #bookreview of the Time Traveler's Passport story anthology, recommended by the New York Times and published by Amazon.

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#BookReview: The Time Traveler’s Passport Anthology - Dr Martina Topić-Rutherford
#BookReview of The Time Traveler’s Passport Anthology, as recommended by the New York Times (published by Amazon).
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November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A #bookreview of Klara and the Sun, a dystopian (for now!) story of AI and humans in a deeply divided class society of genetic engineering and enhancement.

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#BookReview: Klara and the Sun - Dr Martina Topić-Rutherford
A book review of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. #AI #empathy #AIhumanrelations
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November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A new issue of the Corporate Comms journal has been published with my new editorial:
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Editorial 30.6: A behavioural approach to crisis?
In March 2020, the world witnessed an unprecedented crisis as COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic and countries shut down, instituting nationwide lockdowns. The pandemic came at a time when loneli...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A new issue of the Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook has been published. The issue was guest-edited by Lidija Stojanovic-Lafazanovska on the topic of female trajectory in film and media.

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Female Trajectory in Film and Media | Intellect
Intellect Discover is the platform where Intellect's content lives: Browse publications for scholars and practitioners teaching and researching in the arts, media and creative industries.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A new article by PR Moment on PR degrees with my statement on the inclusion of AI in teaching.

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Are PR degrees changing?
As graduates begin pouring out of their summer gap years and into the world of work, and students begin looking for internships, PRmoment wanted to ask…
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September 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
A #bookreview of Talking to my daughter about the economy by Yannis Varoufakis.

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#BookReview: Talking to my daughter about the economy - Dr Martina Topić-Rutherford
A book review of Yannis Varoufakis's book, Talking to my daughter about the economy: A brief history of capitalism.
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September 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
A call for papers is now open for a guest issue of the CCIJ on informal communication in organizations

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Informal Communication in Organizations: Dynamics, Functions, and Implications
This special issue explores the overlooked role of informal communication in organizations, offering new theoretical and empirical insights in various workplace settings.
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July 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A #bookreview of the Front Row book by Jerry Oppenheimer, an unauthorized biography of Anna Wintour, editor of American Vogue.

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#BookReview: Front Row - Dr Martina Topić-Rutherford
A book review of the Front Row – Anna Wintour: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue’s Editor by Jerry Oppenheimer.
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June 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
A new issue of the Corporate Comms journal is published online on Emerald Insight. This is a regular issue with a variety of papers. As with the editorial statement, the editorial policy of CCIJ is that there is no policy, and all research is welcome! :)

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Editorial 30.4: Interdisciplinary and new research areas | Emerald Insight
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June 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
In a new blog post on the Comms Women platform, Karen Vollum-Dix writes about her new book on gender equality in workplaces, published by Emerald.

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Gender Equality in the Professional Workplace: Pioneering Radical Action for Women’s Empowerment
In a new blog post on the Comms Women platform, Dr Karen Vollum-Dix, from Leeds Beckett University, writes about her new book, Gender Equality in the Profession
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June 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM