"Power, Diversity and Public Relations addresses the lack of diversity in PR by revealing the ways in which power operates within the occupation to construct archetypal practitioner identities, occupational belonging and exclusion. It explores the ways in which the field is normatively...

1. PR and trust 'booms and busts' -- 2. Reframing trust, power and PR -- 3. Promoting state financial power : creditworthiness as trustworthiness -- 4. Financial trade associations : territorial battles for trust -- 5. Stock market storytelling : dalliances with trust -- 6. Changing banking...

PR in financial markets: "booms and busts" in trust -- Reframing trust, power & public relations -- Promoting state financial power: creditworthiness as trustworthiness -- Financial trade associations: territorial battles for trust -- Stock market storytelling and dalliances with trust --...

"Over the centuries, scholars have studied how individuals, institutions and groups have used various rhetorical stances to persuade others to believe in and adopt a course of action. The emergence and establishment of public relations as an identifiable and discrete occupation in the early 20th...

Visual and spatial public relations : strategic communication beyond text / Simon Collister and Sarah Roberts-Bowman -- Visual dimensions of public relations -- Public relations as visual meaning-making / Kirsten Kohrs -- Comic books, science (fiction) and public relations / Ian Horton --...

Introduction: culture of lifetime employment and the history of Japanese PR / Tomoki Kunieda -- History in brief / Koichi Yamamura, Sekiya Ikari, & Takashi Kenmochi -- The democratization of Japan and the introduction of American PR / Koichi Yamamura -- Public relations by a local government :...

"The public relations of "everything" takes the radical position that public relations is a profoundly different creature than a generation of its scholars and teachers have portrayed it. Today, it is clearly no longer limited, if it ever has been, to the management of communication in and...