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Using public relations to gain legitimacy in an emerging market: Nanotechnology firms and the news media
Law and disorder: The image of the journalist in television's "Law & Order" series
Strategic communication in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation
Ethanol: The billion-dollar harvest
The rise and fall of Howard Dean: The media's role in the Iowa Caucus "Scream" debacle
A study and comparison of the IPO communications environments and communications strategies in the U.S. and Hong Kong
Politics, public relations and internal communications: A look at the DNC
Implant/explant
The convergence of investor relations and public relations: Fitting investor relations into the overall corporate communications strategy
The advance of the paparazzi and the celebrity army
Guide to corporate internal communications in China: A policy handbook
Battle for turf in the surf
How a strategic public relations campaign can enhance the reputation of China's financial public relations industry
The road to return: The first Crypto-Jewish synagogue
The influence of new media marketing public relations on the South Korean film industry in relation to the U.S. film industry
Reaching the Traditionalists: A study identifying 65--84 year olds and how to effectively communicate with them
Digging for votes: An analysis of 2008 presidential candidates' use of new media
Through targeted public relations awareness campaigns, community based organizations can raise the level of HIV/AIDS awareness among Black women, thereby reducing the rate of HIV/AIDS infections among their demographic sector
Physicians' perceptions on the ethics of free drug samples
An art of the Neutral
Through the application of international public relations, the Chinese government can neutralize the negative effects of the "Made in China" stigma, thereby protecting China's national image
The development of Hollywood's relationship with the military: A guide for filmmakers and military entertainment liaison officers
Effects of racial exclusion from media
Playing dirty: Analyzing the images of the tabloid journalists in the complete first season of the FX Network series "Dirt"
Capturing and maintaining the essence of luxury in the dynamic global marketplace
Engaging in the conversation: Best practices in Strategic Social Media
An analysis of influence strategies within the competitive sports marketplace: How the discipline of "playmaking" can be applied to the competitive sports marketplace
My bruthas' keepers: The jail house or the school house?
Your public is online: Public relations in an online world
Digital writers in an analog world: The image of the cyberjournalist in American film & television
The financial crisis: Signaling a new order of communications
World without a newspaper
The essence of leadership
Whole Foods Market---A communication plan to engage the German market
Immigration integration: A greater role for the Internet
AquariYum! Designing an organic asynchronous gameplay experience
Chinese government's role in crisis management-Case studies of three major crises in recent years
Social media best practices for communication professionals through the lens of the fashion industry
The Economy Crunch: A multimedia website devoted to the economy and what we eat
Strategic implications of the digitization of publishing popular fiction in the 21st century: Introducing the OCTOPUS theory
The entertainment value in food and its value to the public relations industry
Schism: Bridging the gap from casual browser games to hardcore social worlds
The British invasion of American television
Mutual appreciation: Britney Spears and the media machine
Turning the channel to color late-night TV
Growing up the Disney Channel way
Marching bands in television and popular culture: The USC Trojan Marching Band appears on "Glee"
Social innovation: Crowdsourcing and the new face of corporate social responsibility
Power party girls, good looking crowds and one hellish boss: The portrayal of the female entertainment publicist on reality television
The food truck phenomenon: A successful blend of PR and social media
See it want it buy it: The changing face of the early adopter in high technology and the tech industry's targeted public relations campaigns
It's not you, it's me: Generation Me and the public relations strategies to reach it
A comparative analysis of the advertising and public relations disciplines in an era of digitally fueled audience control
Newsdoc: A model for online video storytelling
Now our lives are changing fast: Music videos, everyday curation & the digital deluge
Healing waves
Corporate social media: Trends in the use of emerging social media in corporate America
Beyond the Electronic Curtain
The YouTube phenomenon: YouTube stars eliminating stereotypes in new media
Advertising and consumption in post-Mao China: Between the local and the global
Exploring the effects of media on the self-concepts and achievement of African American high school students
Interactive versus self effort: Untangling the cognitive elaboration-learning relationship on Internet discussion forums
The Vulcan rhetoric of crisis: Presidential advisors and the war in Iraq
Mapping feminism: Representing women's liberation in 1970s popular media
Undermining common sense: Racial legislation, comedy, and the family
Co-producing the Asia Pacific: Travels in technology, space, time and gender
From conversation to conversion: Children's efforts to translate their immigrant families' social networks into community connections
Network influences in health initiatives: Multimedia games for youth in Peru
The informationalization of race: Communication technologies and genomics in the information age
Lesbianscape of Taiwan: Media history of Taiwan's lesbians
User acceptance of computer-based VoIP phone service: An application of the technology acceptance model
Role enactment in interactive media: A role-play perspective
Programming the Apocalypse: Recombinant narrative in cyberspace
Institutional analysis of stakeholder collaboration in freight movement at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
When a story calls: The narrative potential of mobile media
Mobile communication and development: A study of mobile phone appropriation in Ghana
Screens on the move: Media convergence and mobile culture in Korea
Exporting tears and fantasies of (under) development: Popular television genres, globalization and nationalism in Mexico after World War II
A man like the one that married dear old mom: Nostalgia and masculinity crisis in late 20th century American culture
Communities of innovation: Cyborganic and the birth of networked social media
Blogging in China: Individual agency, the production of cyburban 'Spaces of Dissent' in Beijing, and societal transformation in China
Technomobility in the margins: Mobile phones and young rural women in Beijing
Of worlds and avatars: A playercentric approach to videogame discourse
Emergent media technologies and the production of new urban spaces
Hispanic advertising as social orientation: An examination of the advertising industry as a field of cultural production
Are you there, God? It's me TV: Religion in American TV drama 2000--2009
The role of social identity in adolescent smoking behavior
'Machines made of words': Poets, technology, and the mediation of subjectivity and Pomegranate-Eater (poems)
Essays on the economics of non-profit institutions
Media reinvented: The transformation of news in a networked society
The fabled fourth estate: Media freedom, democracy and human rights
Short-term project organizations for corporate entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Japanese animation industry (2000--2008)
Revenge of the fanboy: Convergence culture and the politics of incorporation
The captive public: Media representations of the police and the (il)legitimacy of police power
Art on television: 1967--1976