{"title":"Articulating national identity in postcolonial democracies","authors":"T. Gaither, Patricia A. Curtin","doi":"10.4324/9781315185521-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315185521-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108266,"journal":{"name":"Public Interest Communication","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122308845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terministic dialectics of individual and community agency","authors":"R. Heath, Damion Waymer","doi":"10.4324/9781315185521-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315185521-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108266,"journal":{"name":"Public Interest Communication","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133184615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate change and the public interest","authors":"M. Aitken","doi":"10.4324/9781315185521-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315185521-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108266,"journal":{"name":"Public Interest Communication","volume":"46 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114091739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commercial media platforms and the challenges to public expression and scrutiny","authors":"Nicholas Carah","doi":"10.4324/9781315185521-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315185521-6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that media platforms are productively understood as media engineering companies. Corporations like Facebook and Google build platforms that structure the expressions, rituals and logistics of public life. It contributes to critical theories of public interest communication by considering how the engineering projects undertaken by media platforms like Google and Facebook challenge how we understand the public interest role of media organisations. The chapter focuses on Google and Facebook and argues that they are the two transformative media corporations whose engineering projects are reconstructing what media are and how they intervene in public life. It also argues for a critical account of media platforms and the public interest that follows the strategic investments and directions of the platforms themselves. The chapter considers the implications of ‘mood’ and ‘voting’ experiments for how we understand the relationship between media platforms’ data-driven engineering and the public interest.","PeriodicalId":108266,"journal":{"name":"Public Interest Communication","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121965388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Security, democratic legitimacy and the public interest","authors":"Ian Somerville, Scott Davidson","doi":"10.4324/9781315185521-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315185521-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108266,"journal":{"name":"Public Interest Communication","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121144141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communicating public engagement, public interest and participation","authors":"M. Dutta","doi":"10.4324/9781315185521-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315185521-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108266,"journal":{"name":"Public Interest Communication","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116926221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the public interest puzzle in China’s public relations","authors":"Z. Hou","doi":"10.4324/9781315185521-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315185521-9","url":null,"abstract":"8 Understanding the public interest puzzle in China ’ s public relations The role of balance and counterbalance based on Confucian Great Harmony Jenny Zhengye Hou Introduction Public interest has been a long-standing yet unresolved puzzle in Western public relations research and practice (Edwards 2011; Stoker & Stoker 2012). Despite structural variances across Western democracy, a shared assumption underpinning public interest is that individuals have a ‘ responsible share ’ in forming group activities and participating in the a ff airs that sustain the ‘ great community ’ (Dewey 1927, p. 147). The public-private or state-society binary constitutes the foundation of Western public interest. Following the key spirit of common good, public interest is pursued through creating an equal and free ‘ marketplace of ideas ’ (Bivins 1993, p. 123), where individuals have access to information, and can freely debate public matters in the light of more inclusive interest than individual interest (Heath 1992; Mechling 1975; Sorauf 1957). Accordingly, the puzzle for public relations is how to fulfil an obligation of service in the public interest while continuing to advocate and sub-sidise organisational, especially corporate interests in representative forms (L ’ Etang 2004). To address this dilemma, the recent growing body of critical public relations scholarship (e.g. Johnston 2016) highlights the importance of cultural impacts, and calls for the examination of public interest communication under diverse and specific cultural microscopes...","PeriodicalId":108266,"journal":{"name":"Public Interest Communication","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127437223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lobbying for life","authors":"J. Brambila, J. Lugo-Ocando","doi":"10.4324/9781315185521-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315185521-11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108266,"journal":{"name":"Public Interest Communication","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129982119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}