Public Relations Review articles from June 1996

Public Relations Review archives from June 1996

Chaos theory as a model for managing issues and crises.
June 22, 1996... The term chaos introduces jarring connotations into a public relations context, implying crisis, disunity, loss of control. Despite these negative connotations, however, the relatively new field of chaos theory may help to establish some...

"@Work in cyberspace": exploring practitioner use of the PRForum.
June 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Founded in December 1993 with only a handful of members, the PRForum, an online mailing list on the Internet, has emerged as one of the most popular and widely accessible electronic discussion groups for public relations...

Moral objectivity, Jurgen Habermas's discourse ethics, and public relations.
June 22, 1996... The importance of the study of ethics to the field of communication generally, and to public relations particularly, is evidenced by a number of indicators including the increasing number of university courses offered in the area,(1) surveys...

Can't we all just get along: cultural variables in codes of ethics.
June 22, 1996... Rodney King's plaintive plea "Can't we all just get along?" - voiced at a rally of his supporters after a notorious California trial that split Americans along cultural lines - may be a phrase with multiple utility. It is a question we should be...

Public relations ethics and communitarianism: a preliminary investigation.
June 22, 1996... The issue of ethics in public relations is complex. While some outside the profession may join those ethicists who use the term public relations "as a derogatory term to describe ethics programs that are largely cosmetic, and designed to make the...

A global perspective on public relations ethics: the Middle East.
June 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Sophisticated public relations is being practiced in the Middle East. However, the models used in that geo-political region are not identical to U.S. models, nor to those in other Western countries that are usually considered part...