Dewey and the Dialogical Process: Speaking, Listening, and Today's Media

Evans, Karen G.

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“…7. Use of Internet technology to supplement face-to-face meetings also might be feasible, but experts are not sanguine about its potential for dialogue and do not recommend it as a substitute for face-to-face communications (Evans 2001). …”

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Keeping Public Officials Accountable through Dialogue: Resolving the Accountability Paradox

Roberts

2002

Public Administration Review

153

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How can public officials be held accountable, and yet avoid the paradoxes and pathologies of the current mechanisms of accountability? The answer, claims Harmon (1995), is dialogue. But what exactly is dialogue, and how is it created? More importantly, how can dialogue ensure accountability? To address these questions, I begin with a brief description of dialogue and its basic features, distinguishing it from other forms of communication. An example illustrates how dialogue occurs in actual practice. Not only does dialogue demonstrate the intelligent management of contradictory motives and forces, it also supports Harmon’s claim that it can resolve the accountability paradox and avoid the atrophy of personal responsibility and political authority. I suggest that dialogue’s advantage outweighs its cost as a mechanism of accountability under a particular set of conditions: when public officials confront “wicked problems” that defy definition and solution, and when traditional problem–solving methods have failed, thus preventing any one group from imposing its definition of the problem or its solutions on others.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Keeping Public Officials Accountable through Dialogue: Resolving the Accountability Paradox

Roberts

2002

Public Administration Review

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119

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“…Investigations examining the contributions of digital technologies to political participation tend to attribute a positive connotation to this phenomenon(a), and be grounded, as Moy et al (2012) observe, in the assumption and normative position that political participation is beneficial to both citizens and democratic institutions. Such a stance is shared by the authors of the present paper, and is supported by several influential political scientists such as Barber (1984), Evans (2001), andFischer (2003) who, for instance, regards citizens' participation as 'the cornerstone of the democratic political process' (Fischer, 2003, p. 205). As anticipated in the introductory section of this article, in the last few years there has been a proliferation of academic studies examining SNSs and political participation.…”

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Mediating the contributions of Facebook to political participation in Italy and the UK: the role of media and political landscapes

Casteltrione

Pieczka

2018

Palgrave Commun

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Over the last decade, an increasing number of academic studies have examined how digital technologies can contribute to political participation, with numerous publications focusing on social networking websites. This article adds to this strand of research by tackling the scarcity of cross-national comparative studies in the field. Drawing from an original dataset acquired by combining a cross-national comparative approach and a mixedmethods methodology, this paper explores how media and political landscapes mediate the contributions of Facebook to citizens' political participation in Italy and the United Kingdom. A participatory gap between Italian and British participants, with Italians displaying higher levels of political participation through Facebook, is found and explained with reference to three contextual factors: the greater diffusion and relevance of other online platforms such as Twitter in the UK; Italian participants' more negative perception of traditional media linked to the high level of political parallelism typical of the Italian media system; and the presence in Italy of a political party such as the Five Stars Movement making full use of the communicative and organizational affordances of Facebook. The findings indicate that the contributions of Facebook, and digital technologies in general, to political participation must be analysed in context, within the larger patterns they fit into, and cannot be examined in isolation. Such contributions are better understood if considered within the hybrid media system in which different digital platforms interact, merge and compete. Similarly, the political scenarios in which citizens and political parties operate need to be accounted for when looking at the links between the Internet and politics.

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“…The intellectual link between public relations and dialogue theory which is buried more deeply in scholarship produced in the area is that to Deweyan pragmatism. One of the key themes in Dewey's work is the fundamental role of communication in democracy and community‐building (Evans, 2001, p. 773). He sees that role as going beyond transmission of facts and information and instead as being the way in which the shared territory and social bonds are constituted:[m]en live in a community by virtue of things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come to possess things in common (Dewey cited in Evans, 2001, p. 773).…”

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“…[m]en live in a community by virtue of things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come to possess things in common (Dewey cited in Evans, 2001, p. 773).…”

Section: The Conceptual Centre Of Public Relations Scholarshipmentioning

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Public relations as dialogic expertise?

Pieczka

2011

Journal of Communication Management

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1Dialogue has been at the centre of public relations theory for about thirty years; to be more precise, the key concerns of the theory of dialogue have been worked on in public relations by researchers and writers using concepts of symmetrical communication, relationship management, or responsibility since the late 1970s. Seen in this way, the key question in the field has been one of purpose of public relations as a professional activity, i.e. What is public relations for? The answer, suggested in 1976 by Grunig's turn to the concept of symmetrical communication-which he subsequently identified as the first step towards the theory of excellent public relations (Grunig et al, 2006, p.23)-was that public relations should be guided by values of equality, reciprocity, and the civic ethos.The intellectual origins of this view and its consequences have been widely debated by numerous authors over the years (for example McKie and Munshi, 2007; L'Etang, 2008;Grunig 2001; L'Etang and Pieczka, 1996; Pieczka, 1997). The intention of this paper is neither to go over this terrain again nor to sketch a history of ideas in the field, but to show how the key concerns about the purpose and ethics of public relations have remained at the centre of attention in some of the most important theories; how they resonate with dialogue; and, in this way, to reflect on the nature and positioning of public relations expertise. The paper is written from a particular perspective, i.e. public relations scholarship conducted in the medium of the English language; other perspectives, histories and debates can, therefore, only be incorporated in this discussion if they have been made accessible through an English translation or a publication in English. 3Responsibility) for two reasons: they clearly occupy a very important place in textbooks and research; they also offer a good way of identifying the central conceptual space in public relations: not because they are exclusive in their concerns, but because they exemplify them so clearly.The following extracts drawn form key texts delineate the central conceptual space. Grunig:With the two-way symmetrical model, practitioners used research and dialogue to bring about symbiotic changes in the ideas, attitudes and […] The concern for balancing the needs of society and the needs of clients produces a tension that may be difficult to manage. PR professional may find it challenging to function as -the conscience of the organization‖. interlocutors' orientations towards the object of communication and the influence the perception of this state of affairs has on the parties' subsequent orientation to that object. In other words, the closer interlocutors see themselves to each other in their views on a subject (i.e. in their cognitions and evaluations), the more confident they become in these views, and that change happens in a co-related manner, affecting the whole system, not juts its individual parts. Newcomb also asserts that symmetry functions as ‗secondary reward value', or to simplify, it is p...

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Dewey and the Dialogical Process: Speaking, Listening, and Today's Media

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Keeping Public Officials Accountable through Dialogue: Resolving the Accountability Paradox

Keeping Public Officials Accountable through Dialogue: Resolving the Accountability Paradox

Mediating the contributions of Facebook to political participation in Italy and the UK: the role of media and political landscapes

Public relations as dialogic expertise?

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