Research suggests that low congregant engagement has negative consequences for both religious organizations and congregants (Dougherty & Whitehead, 2010; Lim & Putnam, 2010). This study combined four methods in an attempt to take a comprehensive approach to examining congregant …
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The thesis presents rich empirical analysis of the role of public relations in facilitating participation in social change in the Arab Gulf. The focus is on what public communication approaches are used and how they are regarded from the perspectives of the key social actors. It…
This thesis adds conceptual and practical value to the field of public affairs (PA). It connects scholarship from the fields of competencies, careers and knowledge, with the theory and practice of PA. The review of literature clearly demonstrated that a gap existed. This then pr…
This thesis explores the current police-community relationships in Kuwait where no previous research on this particular topic is known. Therefore, the overall goal of this thesis is to both describe the current relationship between the Kuwaiti police and the community and, based…
This research project is an analysis of the use of digital propaganda by the three major parties in the UK 2010 General Election. In addition to this empirical aim, the study also employs the discipline of memetics to generate a theoretical and methodological approach with which…
This research examined the role of communication – and in particular public relations (PR) and public affairs activities – in the decision-making processes around the proposal to build a bypass road around the city of Aberdeen. The study focused on the relative power of various …
Since the day Saudi Arabia was founded, its highly centralised and paramilitary police organisation remained immune to scrutiny, and police performance and their relationship with the public have remained uncharted territories. But lately, in response to leaking reports about ri…
This thesis examines the optimal role for public relations practitioners to play in managing the communications of disclosure situations. The contribution to knowledge in this work is the clarification of decision-making around organizational disclosures and the role public rela…
Her insan doğduğu andan itibaren sosyal yaşamın bir parçası halindedir. İnsanlar, çevresiyle iletişim halinde olduğu sürece, sosyal bir çevre içerisinde kendilerini farklı kılan bir kimlikle ifade etme ihtiyacı hissetmişlerdir. Bu farklılaşma ihtiyacı insanlarda olduğu gibi kuru…
Ülkemizde halkla ilişkiler mesleği her geçen gün önem kazanmakta ve kullanımı yaygınlaşmaktadır. Ancak meslek ile ilgili toplumun zihninde eksik ve yanlış bir algı vardır. Var olan bu olumsuz algının çeşitli sebepleri bulunmaktadır. Mesleğin disiplinler arası olması, ülkemizde u…
This dissertation used a qualitative, case study to explore how the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) applied strategic public relations management during peace operations in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1995 to 1996. The purpose of this research was to propose a model o…
In a counterinsurgency environment, Information Operations play a crucial role. The insurgents and terrorists in Iraq rely on shaping narrative through media events and propaganda, and these narratives allow them to convince publics to support their cause, as well as change the …
Over the course of the twentieth century, the pharmaceutical industry evolved into its modern form. Individual pharmaceutical companies formed trade organizations in the early 1900s and experienced exponential growth in the 1930s and onward with the development of lifesaving and…
This research explored a rarely tapped field where public relations, news media, and international relations converge. The theory of marketing driven journalism and the concept of agenda building were integrated to construct the theoretical framework of the research, which addre…
Studying the use of communication in crisis and conflict management is a major area in the public relations and organizational communication literature, in the United States. However, There are few studies found on this topic, in the Arab world. This is the first study dealing w…
The aim of this dissertation is to explore how the status and standards of public relations as a profession are perceived by the three main groups involved in public relations: academics, practitioners, and business leaders. This study approaches the issues from several perspect…