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This book is an essential resource for those learning to apply communications and public relations to crisis situations.
List of contents
Part I. Understanding Crisis and Issues Management: 1. Theorising and practising public relations crisis management Steve Mackey; Part II. Industrial Disasters: 2. Outrage management or consensus communication: what is the best way of doing risk communication? Paul Adams; 3. Confronting the reputation risks: New Zealand's biggest food safety scare Chris Galloway; Part III. Corporate Risks: 4. Crisis communication: when sorry is the hardest word in elite sport Hamish McLean and Maria Hopwood; 5. Corporate responses to a racially framed incident in Malaysia: KFC I-City flight Kiranjit Kaur; 6. Managing issues through cross-sector collaboration: Unilever and Greenpeace Sharyn McDonald; Part IV. Social Media and Crisis: 7. Media targets: when a spark in social media develops into a mainstream media firestorm Kristy Hess and Lisa Waller; 8. Harnessing the power of slacktivism: boom and bust cycle of issues management and crisis Deirdre Quinn-Allan; 9. Social media adoption and risk aversion: Australian not-for-profits Emma Bennett; Part V. Natural Disasters: 10. Communicating during disasters: insights from the 2013 Bundaberg flood Amisha Mehta and Dominique A. Greer; 11. Government roles in emergency communication response Jordi Xifra and Mark Sheehan; 12. Post crisis: rebuilding a company, a reputation, a community Mark Sheehan and Biagio Oppi.
Summary
Crisis Communication in a Digital World provides an introduction to major crisis communication theories and issues management. Written by authors with over six decades combined experience in the public relations field, it is an essential resource for those learning to apply communications and public relations to crisis situations.
