Social media, organizational identity and public relations : the challenge of authenticity /

Public relations has been swift to grasp social media, yet its impact on public relations practice remains relatively unexplored. This book focusses on a way of understanding organizational identity construction in a virtual context, developing scholarship on the importance of a virtual presence in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thurlow, Amy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Communicatively constituted organizations, plausible?
  • Critical sensemaking (CSM) in a virtual environment
  • Methodology
  • Plausibility, authenticity and collective enactment
  • Crowdfunding : collective organizing and virtual identities
  • Plausibility and legitimation
  • Volkswagen : truth, accuracy and plausibility
  • Engagement and enactment
  • #MarchAgainstMonsanto : social movements, extracting cues, and the ongoing nature of sensemaking
  • Conclusion.