1st Edition

Visual Public Relations Strategic Communication Beyond Text

Edited By Simon Collister, Sarah Roberts-Bowman Copyright 2018
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book brings together a broad and diverse range of new and radical approaches to public relations focussing on the increasingly vital role that visual, sensory and physical elements factors play in shaping communication. Engaging with recent developments in critical and cultural theories, it outlines how non-textual and non-representational forces play a central role in the efficacy and... Read more

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction: 1. Visual and Spatial Public Relations: Strategic Communication Beyond Text, Simon Collister and Sarah Roberts-Bowman; Part 1 - Visual Dimensions of Public Relations; 2. Public Relations as Visual Meaning-Making, Kirsten Kohrs; 3. Comic Books, Science (Fiction) and Public Relations, Ian Horton; 4. Picturing Statistical Narratives: A Century of Data Visualisation in Public Relations Practice, Jon Cope and Mark Wells; Part 2 - Spatial Dimensions of Public Relations; 5. Limits or Opportunities for Strategic Communication? The Role of Space and Place in Mediating #Demo2012, Simon Collister; 6. The Communicative Function of Public Spaces, Noureddine Miladi; 7. A Time and Place: The Las Vegas Mob Museum’s Experiential Public Relations, Jessalynn Strauss; Part 3 – Researching Visual and Spatial Public Relations; 8. A Visual History of BP’s Use of Public Relations after Deepwater Horizon, Nick Lovegrove; 9. Environmental Multi-modal Communication: Semiotic Observations on Recent Campaigns, Andrea Catellani; 10. Exploring visual experiments – measuring multimodal messages in laboratory research, Anna-Sara Fagerholm and Karina Göransson; 11. Conclusions and Future Directions, Simon Collister and Sarah Roberts-Bowman





 



 

Biography

Simon Collister is a doctoral researcher in Royal Holloway, University of London’s New Political Communication Unit in the UK. He has published journal articles and contributed to edited collections on algorithmic public relations, innovative digital research methods and technology’s impact on communication and news media. He is co-editor of Debates for a Digital Age: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of our Online World (2015).



Sarah Roberts-Bowman, Ph.D. is a senior lecturer at Northumbria University, UK and formerly ran the MA Public Relations at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London, UK. Prior to entering academia, Sarah had 20 years’ experience in PR practice holding senior roles in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors and has worked regionally, nationally and at a pan-European level.