Protest Public Relations : Communicating dissent and activism / edited by Ana Adi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Protest public relations: communicating dissent and activism an introduction, Ana Adi -- 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 Activists as pioneers in PR: historical frameworks and the suffragette movement, Michaela O'Brien -- 4 Second-wave feminist movement in Turkey through an activist PR perspective, A. Banu Bak and Pelin Hrmeri -- 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 Republics citizenship policies, Maria De Moya -- 7 Activists communication and mobilization tactics to find Ayotzinapa's 43 disappeared Students, Luis Rubn Daz-Cepeda, Ernesto Castaeda, and Kara Andrade -- 8 Reading Gezi Park protests through the lens of protest PR, Barika Gnc, Erkan Saka, and Anl Sayan -- 9 Archiving activism and/as activist PR: Occupy Wall Street and the politics of influence, Kylie Message -- 10 Romanias protest: from stakeholders in waiting to activists becoming PR practitioners, Camelia Crian -- 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 Streets 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

Global movements and protests from the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement have been attributed to growing access to social media, while without it, local causes like #bringbackourgirls and the ice bucket challenge may have otherwise remained unheard and unseen. Regardless of their nature - advocacy, activism, protest or dissent - and beyond the technological ability of digital and social media to connectsupport, these major events have all been the results of excellent communication and public relations. But PR remains seen only as the defender ofcorporate and capitalist interests, and therefore resistant to outside voices such as activists, NGOs, union members, protesters and whistle-blowers. Drawing on contributions from around the world to examinethe concepts and practice of "activist," "protest" and "dissent" public relations, this book challenges this view. Using a range of international examples, it explores the changing nature of protest and its relationship with PR and provides a radical analysis of the communication strategies and tactics of social movements and activist groups and their campaigns. This thought-provoking collection will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of public relations, strategic communication, political science, politics, journalism, marketing, and advertising, and also to PR professionals in think tanks and NGOs.

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