Protest Public Relations Communicating dissent and activism

1 The slow conflation of public relations and activism: Understanding trajectories in public relations theorising C. Kay Weaver  2 Activist Nation: Australia and the 1916 Conscription Referendum Emily Robertson and Robert Crawford   3 Protest PR as pioneers: historical frameworks and the suffragettes movement Michaela O'Brien  4 Second-wave feminist movement in Turkey through an activist PR perspective A. Banu Bıçakçı and Pelin Hürmeriç   5 Public Relations for social change: shock tactics in feminist activism in Eastern Europe Oleksandra Gudkova and Katharine Sarikakis   6. Protesting the Homeland: Diaspora Dissent Public Relations Efforts to Oppose the Dominican Republic’s Citizenship Policies Maria De Moya   7 Activists’ Communication and Mobilization Tactics to Find Ayotzinapa's 43 Disappeared Students Luis Ruben Diaz-Cepeda, Ernesto Castañeda, and Kara Andrade   8 Reading Gezi Park Protests through the Lens of Protest PR Barika Göncü, Erkan Saka and Anıl Sayan    9 Archiving Activism and/as Activist PR: Occupy Wall Street and the Politics of Influence Kylie Message    10 Romania’s Protest: From Stakeholders in Waiting to Activists’ Becoming PR Practitioners Camelia Crisan   11 Activist PR in Vietnam: Public participation via Facebook to save 6,700 trees Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen and Nguyen Hoang Anh   12 The Beginning of the End: Telling the story of Occupy Wall Street’s eviction on Twitter Photini Vrikki   13 Activist Public Relations: Moving from Frames as Objects to Framing as a Dynamic Process Adam Howe and Rima Wilkes   14 Digital Media, Journalism, PR, and Grassroots Power: Theoretical Perspectives Marina Vujnovic and Dean Kruckeber    15 The Activist Reformation of PR in the Attention Economy Thomas Stoeckle

Biography

Ana Adi is a Professor of Public Relations/Corporate Communications at Quadriga University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. When not analysing public relations from a critical perspective, Dr Adi’s research, teaching and consultancy focuses on the strategic uses of digital and social media in a variety of communication fields. You can find more about her work on www.anaadi.net.

Today, now, this minute – change is in motion. Students and researchers of communication seeking to understand how this dynamic is propelled, disrupted, restrained or transformed will be intrigued by this volume. Ana Adi offers a rich and varied collection for readers showing how people and groups on the margins struggle to change one reality for another in many diverse parts of the globe, and at different times in history. Drawing on important theoretical discussions, this book underscores the need for new ways of speaking about activism and public relations – and in doing both extends and entrenches the critical space to interrogate politics, power and communicative action and inaction. Bravo! This book should be on everyone’s reading list.

Kristin Demetrious, Associate Professor of Communication, Deakin University, Australia

This book provides a valuable addition to the literature on the rise of social movements, which are a characteristic of contemporary democracies and emerging democracies. It builds on the previous Routledge text Public Relations, Activism, and Social Change by Kristin Demetrious, with a particular feature being the breadth of international case studies examined by a range of expert authors. While it can be argued that activist groups and social movements are opponents of public relations, which is traditionally associated with power elites, this volume brings an expanded view of public relations as well as contemporary political communication.

Jim Macnamara, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Public Communication, University of Technology Sydney, Australia