Intersectional activism, history and public relations

Vardeman, Jennifer; Kennedy, Amanda; Little, Brittany

doi:10.4324/9780429451287-7

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“…Rather than confining power to the C-suite and activists as always in opposition to the corporate interest, activist publics also offer opportunities to study the "potential to create power and salience through advocacy" (Coombs & Holladay, 2012, p. 885). Since their critique, the literature has widened to include consideration of activism in/as public relations from further critical cultural perspectives (see, for example, Demetrious, 2013;Holtzhausen, 2012;Vardeman et al, 2020), and to nuanced corporate contexts (Pompper, 2015). Summarily, these studies all treat activism as a rich site of public relations understood "to be fundamentally about producing, sustaining, and regulating… meaning" (Edwards & Hodges, 2011, p. 3).…”

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Spinning at the Border: Employee Activism in ‘Big PR’

Reyes

2021

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This article extends Coombs and Holladay’s (2018) social issues management model to provide new perspectives on activism and public relations. It also fills a gap in the literature on internal activism by analyzing the case of The Ogilvy Group and their employees, many of whom pushed for the agency to resign its work for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Through a textual analysis of a leaked transcript documenting a meeting between Ogilvy management and internal activist employees, the communicative tasks of definition, legitimation, and awareness (Coombs & Holladay, 2018) are explored in a way that complicates identity and power. As public relations practitioners are increasingly called upon to either advocate for or against social issues, this study provides an interesting contrast, showing one interpretation of what happens when there is dissension in the ranks.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Spinning at the Border: Employee Activism in ‘Big PR’

Reyes

2021

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Intersectional activism, history and public relations

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Spinning at the Border: Employee Activism in ‘Big PR’

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