Routledge New Directions in Public Relations & Communications Research

Present academic thinking about PR and related communications reflects an unprecedented expansion and ferment in the discipline and many scholars believe that a radical ‘turn’ should be explored.

Routledge New Directions in Public Relations and Communications Research is a new forum for the publication of books of original research in PR and related communications. Its remit is to publish critical responses to continuities and fractures in contemporary PR thinking and practice, and its essential yet challenging role in market-orientated, capitalist, liberal democracies around the world. The series reflects the multiple and inter-disciplinary forms PR takes in a post-Grunigian world; the expanding roles which it performs, and the increasing number of countries in which it is practised.

The series will explore and expand thinking on the key questions which impact PR and communications including:

• Is the evolution of persuasive communications in Central and Eastern Europe, China, Latin America, Japan, the Middle East and South East Asia developing new forms or following Western models?
• What has been the impact of postmodern sociologies, cultural studies and methodologies which are often critical of the traditional, conservative role of PR in capitalist political economies, patriarchy, gender and ethnic roles?
• What is the impact of digital social media on politics, practice and privacy? Is new technology changing the nature of content communicated, or simply reaching bigger audiences faster? Is digital PR a cause or a consequence of political and cultural change?

Routledge New Directions in Public Relations and Communications Research offers a new forum to debate these changes with peers around the world, and invites contributions from both established and new academics researching and teaching in these expanding fields of study.

If you would like information about submitting a proposal to the series, please contact the series editor, Kevin Moloney at kmoloney@bournemouth.ac.uk