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Lane Anne Gidney
No full textThis 1962 photograph shows Lane Anne Gidney, age 6, singing at a folk festival in Franklin, North Carolina. Founder and director of the Mountain Youth Jamboree, Hubert H. Hayes (1901-1964) auditioned and directed youth to perform in folk dance, music, and folk and ballad singing. The jamboree was held in the Asheville City Auditorium (now known as Thomas Wolfe Auditorium) from 1948 to 1973, and Hayes’ wife, Leona Trantham Hayes (1913-1989) continued to direct the program after his death in 1964. Hubert Hayes was an author, playwright, and alumni of Duke University
Mrs. R. D. Alexander and children, Lane Anne, Anita, and Robert
No full textMrs. R. D. Alexander, recently installed as president of Horton Howe Study Club, was photographed with her three children at her home, 2628 Stadium Drive. The children are, standing, Lane Anne, 9; and seated, Anita, 7; and Robert, 5.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/12381/thumbnail.jp
Empowering publics
No full textIn the field of public relations, one of the most challenging and controversial concepts of the 20th century – that of two-way symmetric public relations – remains a hot topic. Over the last 20 years, there has been considerable debate about the feasibility of this type of public relations. The main focus of criticism has been on the model’s reliance on the notion that organisations might respond positively to feedback from their publics, incorporating external wants and needs into their operations even though these may result in change to their original plans. Critics view such an outcome as highly unlikely and unrealistic, especially in the context of public relations as practised in the commercial sector. \ud
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As a contribution to the on-going debate around two way symmetric public relations, this paper reflects on an Australian case study from the property development industry to illustrate some of the practical benefits of conducting this type of communication in the commercial sector. It suggests that a key to making this form of public relations work successfully is to approach communication with management as if they were a target public in their own right. Using Marston’s (1979) RACE (Research, Action, Communication, and Evaluation) framework as a guide, the paper then suggests ideas that might be most often used in reaching, persuading and influencing publics generally to see how these could be made relevant to the conduct of ‘balanced’ communication with management. How can 21st century organisational public relations practitioners present stakeholder arguments in a positive way; and ultimately perhaps even get management to incorporate elements of these arguments in organisational attitudes and behaviour? And what are the implications of these ideas for the future development of public relations theory
Is dialogue the key to Pandora’s box?
No full textThe title and theme of this conference invite us to question the role and place of dialogue within a broad range of communication disciplines. For those of us working in the area of public relations, this interrogation has already been going on for at least the last 20 years. In 1984, James Grunig and Todd Hunt – among others – first raised the idea that dialogue should be an important feature in the work of public relations practitioners. Two of their four models of public relations (the concepts of two-way asymmetric and two-way symmetric communication) reflected the new idea that organisations and publics should be talking to one another. However, the two-way symmetric paradigm went even further. In this conceptualisation, dialogue between organisations and publics was viewed “more as a stance, orientation or bearing in communication rather than as a specific method, technique or format” (Botan, 1997, p.192). Participants in this type of dialogue were required to be reflexive and mutually-responsive. Grunig and Hunt claimed this as the normative paradigm for public relations, the ‘Holy Grail’ of the profession. And this led to a questioning and subsequent problematising of the whole concept of symmetrical dialogue.\ud
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Since then, dialogic attitudes stubbornly continue to influence the development of ‘new’ public relations theory, from relationship management to rhetorical approaches. However, the concept of dialogue as an outcome objective seems to have been almost totally subsumed in the discourse surrounding the development of relationship management theory. This version of dialogue is arguably in itself a compromise. Instead of an equitable and mutually-responsive partnership, the contemporary public relations version of dialogue has been negotiated into a simple parallel connectivity whose conditions are satisfied as long as both participants are talking to each other: dialogue is seen as a means to a corporate end. \ud
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Should we, as critical thinkers about the profession of public relations, be satisfied with this? This conference invites the communication professions – public relations among them – to take the time to indulge in a self-reflexive moment, to deconstruct and examine the concept of dialogue in the 21st century. In order to question the dialogue in public relations, we must address certain issues. Firstly, just what is dialogue? Is a responsive component necessary, or is it sufficient that both partners speak and listen in turn? Secondly we must ask ourselves, should we be engaging in dialogue? And thirdly, leading on from this, can we actually make the transition from theoretical abstract to lived reality? In short: \ud
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Should we – could we – join the dialogue?\ud
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In order to add some pragmatic meat to the abstract theoretical bones of this discussion, it is situated within the context of a real world case study: that of the High Performance Schools Initiative, a caucus of all 16 state high schools on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Within this context, I aim to show that dialogue is not only desirable but also essential from both a practical and moral point of view. This is a fascinating microcosm of many of the issues and challenges facing public relations professionals throughout the discipline
Pragmatic two-way communication : a practitioner perspective on dialogue in public relations
No full textPublic relations has traditionally claimed a close association with dialogue, but this research demonstrates that formal notions of dialogue have little relevance to the real world of public relations practice. Instead, practitioners undertake pragmatic forms of two-way communication, because the constraints within which they work mean dialogue is difficult if not impossible to carry out. This qualitative research project shows that although the label of 'dialogue' has been co-opted in both the theory and practice of public relations, this claimed connection is not supported by empirical evidence
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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