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UK government communication:From evolution to revolution
No full textThis chapter takes an overview of the development of the UK Government Communication Service (GCS), touching briefly on its origins but mainly focusing on the changes that have taken place in the last 25 years. It argues that after a slow, revolutionary start, there is now revolutionary change, which has transformed the service from one characterised by well-intentioned amateurism to one of professional proficiency. The chapter chronicles the main events and political contexts that have shaped government communication over the last seven decades and contends that they can be categorised into six distinct periods, each with their own specific characteristics. There are a number of themes that remain constant throughout: a recurring battle to remain free from politicisation; steady progress towards closer coordination of communication activity by government departments and the ‘centre’ (Cabinet Office); a shift to a more marketing-based model of communication and the ongoing drive to professionalise the service through professional development, which has become increasingly structured over time. The result is that GCS is now recognised as a global leader in government communication and, rather than being seen to be lagging behind the private sector, now has much to teach it.</p
Politics, government and the media: A site of struggle between opposing conceptions of public communication
No full textAs society faces waves of media change, from the rise of 24/7 media in the late 1980s to web-enabled media in the 2000s, successive governments have navigated between a riskier media/political interface and the institutional requirement to uphold public service core values. Such media change has been identified as ‘mediatisation’, a far-reaching historical meta-process whereby media proliferate and are institutionalised and normalised to the extent that they enable ‘the social construction of everyday life, society and culture’ (Krotz 2009, 24). Such pressures apply to all actors involved in government/media relations, from government press officers and journalists to governing politicians and their partisan advisers. This chapter examines the evolving interface between governments, politics and the media, taking the United Kingdom as a case study. It examines points of interest during the 25 years between the election in 1997 of New Labour under Tony Blair, who faced lasting reputational damage over his promotion of the US-led invasion of Iraq, and the reluctant resignation in June 2022 of Boris Johnson, the Conservative Prime Minister whose government pronouncements could no longer be believed even by his own MPs. The chapter uses contemporary government, media and parliamentary documents, archival sources and interviews with media and political actors to ask who is winning the struggle and what this means for the quality of public communication
Embedding social responsibility in HE corporate communications degrees
No full textAs the continued viability of companies increasingly depends on the public’s confidence in their commitment to social justice, sustainable design and environmental responsibility, companies must be prepared to reconsider what and how they communicate, to whom, and for what purpose. Corporate communications programs therefore have a responsibility, not only to our graduates and their future employers, but to those whose lives will be affected by their values and decisions. This chapter will consider the implications, opportunities and challenges of embedding the principles and practices of CSR in the design and delivery of advertising, marketing communications and public relations programs within the context of the administrative, economic and conceptual constraints resulting from the 2008 financial recession
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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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