FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE FULL REPORT It has been many months in the making. It started with an idea to follow up on the findings of the PR2025 study and on the observation that many use the term PR but mean different things by it. Thanks to PRCA’s invitation to join their University Advisory Group […]
FREE DOWNLOAD In June this year, I have launched a call for contributions for a free ebook about Ai in PR/Comms. 3.5 months later, there’s a book: Artificial Intelligence in Public Relations and Communications: cases,reflections, and predictions – all 140+ pages, 16 authors from 6 countries packed with insight and thought provoking reviews and questions. […]
Call For Papers And Contributors: Free E-book On AI In PR/Comms
I am planning to edit a new, free e-book, under a creative commons licence on Artificial Intelligence in Public Relations and Communications, using a similar system of collection, review and publication as I have used with the Corporate Activism, Women in PR and #Rezist2017 books. Whether research, opinion pieces, case studies or useful toolkits, this […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided rich learning opportunities for public communicators: from positive, and unfortunately too often, also from negative examples. From the difficulties of relaying scientific information to publics and political partisanship colliding with public health interests, to the ‘misinfodemic’ (in particular, but not only, on social media) exacerbating the pandemic, to HR departments […]
A collection of articles, research updates and solutions for a rising trend FREE DOWNLOAD One of 2019’s most prominent theme for PR/Comms was business with purpose, a new take and a mixture, it felt to me, between Kramer & Porter’s creating shared value (CSV) concept and Simon Sinek’s “start with why”. In a sense, the […]
New book OUT NOW. Use FRL40 for a 20% discount Love and thanks from the editor I cannot be more thrilled (and perhaps a little spooked – what if I missed a typo?) that my first solo editorial project is out now, in print, packed with awesome content from fantastic contributors from around the world! […]
AMEC’s Measurement Month has been incredibly busy, with loads of interesting events around the world, and some fantastic publications too. PRNews (usually focused on the North American communications market) had quite a full list dedicated to measurement, so needless to say, it feels fantastic to be part of it representing both Quadriga University of Applied […]
Toolkit: Corporate Volunteering Evaluation with Digital Storytelling
Download paper Executive Summary:Â Corporate volunteering is an important vehicle for delivering care and compassion to causes and communities in need (Grant, 2012: 589). Identified by Bussell and Forbes (2008) as the fastest-growing area of volunteering in North America and Western Europe, corporate volunteering is being adopted more readily by organizations and their employees as […]
Research: Instagram study on Romanian Presidential Elections is out now
#yeslavot is finally out. Our article (co-authored with Roman Gerodimos and Darren Lilleker, both from Bournemouth University) is finally out in Javnost – The Public. This is based on Instagram data we collected in 2014 during the second round of the Romanian Presidential elections and is, perhaps, the first Instagram study looking at political communication, […]
PR Conversations with Thomas Stoeckle on PR for the 21st century
With the rapid changes in the communications landscape, including the technologies that enable/mediate communication, the skillset and job description of the PR practitioner is often in focus. More technical skills are in demand and more focus is on measurement and evaluation (so research and critical thinking). None of these point to PR being a management […]
Lessons from the Romanian #rezist protests – online coverage
At the end of July, Dr Darren G. Lilleker (from Bournemouth University) and I have edited andlaunched an online publication focusing on the Romanian #rezist protests. In an effort to incentivise reading, we have also shared the report widely but also published several separate articles reflecting on the lessons learned from the protests. The context […]
OUT NOW: #rezist – Romania’s 2017 anti-corruption protests
The beginning of 2017 brought attention to Romania and its street protests against corruption. What started for me as a “watching the news unfold” exercise turned quickly into many questions that I could not answer on my own. This is how the idea of a flash report on the Romanian protests came about. #rezist […]
New publication: PESO media strategy shifts to SOEP
The first academic article reflecting on the results from the first Asia-Pacific Communication Monitor research which I coordinated last year has been now published. Published with Jim Macnamara, May Lwin andAnsgar Zerfass in Public Relations Review, the article reveals a major shift from the traditional PESO model of media use by organizations (paid, earned, shared, owned) […]
Beyond the PhD life: guest blog post for Warwick Uni
Some of my recent thoughts on how to succeed in academia were published on PhD Life, a blog ran by Ana Kedves, a second year PhD researcher at Research Exchange, University of Warwick. It all started with a tweet seeking female academics to share their stories in a series of posts to be published in […]
A new article on digital storytelling and empowerment marketing and their application to corporate communication, about it public relations and corporate social responsibility has been recently published in the Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy Journal. Co-authored with Dr Camelia Crisan and Razvan Constantin Dinca, and the result of a conference paper presented in 2015 […]
An article I recently co-authored with Dr Camelia Crisan, sick executive director of the Progress Foundation in Romania, mind has been published in the Communication Director Magazine. The article is a providing some background information which inspired our recent research project on digital storytelling reflections of corporate volunteering. This has been further elaborated on in […]
Earlier this year I have joined the core research team of the Asia-Pacific Communication Monitor 2015/16, viagra sale the first of its kind for the region and a spin-off of already existing and highly insightful monitors for Europe and Latin-America. I have coordinated the research team efforts (Jim Macnamara, misbirth May O. Lwin and […]
Conference paper: Visual framing of Romanian migrants
I had the pleasure to collaborate recently with Bianca Cheregi, PhD researcher at the Doctoral School in Communication Sciences from the National University of Political Science and Administrative Studies on a research paper exploring the role news images play in framing Romanian immigrants to the UK and how they construct the social issue of migration, […]
An article I wrote has been accepted for publication in the Public Relations Review and is now available Occupy PR Here are some highlights: Although Occupy protests have concluded, cough occupy groups continue to communicate online. Occupy Wall Street and Occupy London continue to be the most visible occupy accounts. The websites and Twitter […]
I have just received in the post today my complimentary copies from Emerald of “Corporate Social Responsibility in the Digital Age”. Part of David Crowther`s Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility series, side effects this volume edited with Georgiana Grigore and David Crowther is the first I co-edited. It has been quite a journey with […]
New publication: Olympic humanitarianism – the fundamental principles of Olympism
The Journal of Olympic History recently features on the cover of its latest number my article “Olympic humanitarianism: the fundamental principles of Olympism”. While I have published shorter articles on the same topic before in Culture @ the Olympics and Sportanddev.org this is the article that contains the research that informed them. This article, […]
Social media monitoring tools in higher education marketing
Nathaniel Hobby and I delivered a conference paper in November 2013 at the 1st Marketing and Communication in Asia Conference, dosage organized by Bournemouth University and Chulalongkorn University. The Conference proceedings have been now published and our full paper is included in them. The summary of the paper and the powerpoint are here.
You can now find my PhD thesis in the British Library collection of electronic theses. Below is the abstract of my thesis: The Olympic Games is a mechanism through which numerous advocacy and political groups compete to frame the media coverage that it generates. These processes are restricted by the relatively fixed guidelines imposed upon […]
Out now: 2 chapters on social media in higher education
The 13th of June in Bournemouth University’s calendar of the Festival of Learning was dedicated to visual communication. Aimed mainly at people working within the third sector, the workshop which my colleague Anna Feigenbaum and I ran challenged participants to think about creating images that stick on a shoestring budget. To make the challenge more […]
New Publication: Media Regulations and the Olympic Charter
Today I had the opportunity of lecturing via Skype to a group of Master’s students from the University of Kansas about digital media research. The invitation came from Dr Mugur Geana, mind Associate Professor of Strategic Communication; Director, viagra order Center for Excellence in Health Communication to Underserved Populations at the William Allen White […]
“The Best Games Ever”: a review of Olympic closing ceremony remarks since the 1980s
I was asked in the summer to write a short article for the Newsletter of the International Olympic Academy Participants Association reflecting on my experience of the London 2012 Olympics. Keeping in mind the skeptical enthusiasm displayed before the Games in the UK and also remembering my experience of the Beijing Games, phthisiatrician I […]
Beijing: when humanitarian issues and Olympic values collide
Earlier this summer I wrtoe a short piece for Sportanddev.org about the challenges the IOC and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games organizers faced when questions about human rights, approved freedom of speech and freedom of the press were raised by internaitonal media and advocacy groups. The entire article is here. Here’s an excerpt: […]
The new edition of Culture @ the Olympics hosts an article I wrote about the contractual limitations for artists working around the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, treat from the perspective of a corporate sponsor for the Olympic arts. The entire article is below:
It is with tremendous pleasure that I announce the publication of one of my co-authored contributions to Sage’s Encyclopedia of Social Networks. My article on Yahoo!, psychiatrist its history and contribution to the internet world is part of this massive  e-reference work that comes with a 2-volume print version that features 350 signed entries […]
While checking out the notes and ideas that I might use for some future academic publications, discount I came across this essay (of sorts) that I wrote while the voting for the 2016 host of the Olympic Games was being broadcasted online and heavily commented on Twitter. While the attention the voting received online was […]
This Saturday (October 15) I had the opportunity to participate to my first conference in Bahrain: 1st Tripartite Business Research Conference. Organized by the AMA International University-Bahrain, prescription the conference focused on government, industry and academia working together for better quality of live through research. The invited speakers at the conference reflected the theme in the sense […]
This semester saw me developing and teaching a new extensive course. Following the positive evaluations received from the students taking the New Media course at Katho and their calls for more specialized courses, treatment I was asked to prepare and deliver an introductory course on Branding. The course After extensive research of other branding courses […]
