Public Relations and the Power of Creativity

Public Relations and the Power of Creativity by Sarah Bowman

Creativity is the development and use of imagination to solve current challenges or create innovative ideas for the future. The complexity and challenges of the contemporary world arguably require increasing levels of creativity and innovation to manage the disruptive forces at work and build a prosperous and sustainable global society. Public relations is often seen as the discipline that amplifies creative ideas developed by other sectors, but this is changing. With the blurring of lines among creative industries, organisations are increasingly turning to PR to generate the ‘big ideas’ at the heart of effective communication. This volume gathers 12 outstanding contributions from scholars based in Germany, Finland, Austria, Romania, the UK, Spain, France, Norway, Turkey and the USA. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate a range of possibilities for creative thinking about public relations management and collaboration in different settings and with different purposes. The chapters hint at opportunities, point towards innovation, and challenge our thinking about the power of creativity.

This volume contains 12 chapters drawn from a EUPRERA (European Public Relations Education and Research Association) conference held in London in 2017, on the topic of creative thinking in public relations managementScholars from Europe and the US address aspects related to leadership, ethics, and creativity, including the corporate value of listening, ethical leadership and interpersonal communication competence, and leadership communication; knowledge and collaboration for fostering creativity, including the role of trust and intrinsic motivation in enhancing participation and creativity in crowdsourcing communities, the influence of knowledge transfer on the development of creativity in education for public relations, the co-creation of knowledge for innovation and public relations in multi-stakeholder projects, and collaborative creativity in public relations; and new creative approaches to public relations, with discussion of culture and public relations, a design-thinking approach to visual communication, examples of award-winning campaigns illustrating creativity in public relations, a co-creative model for communication and dissemination, and visual methods for strategic internal communication management. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *

Sarah Bowman is a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, UK. Her research interest include public affairs, ethical practice, competencies, and visual, spatial and affective practice.Adrian Crookes is the Programme Director for the Communications and Media courses at London College of Communication, University of Arts London, UK, which includes advertising, media communications, media cultures, and public relations at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Øyvind Ihlen is a Professor in the Department of Media and Communication (IMK) at the University of Oslo, Norway. His research focuses in particular on the strategic communication of political issues. Stefania Romenti is Associate Professor and Chair in Strategic Communication at Università IULM, Milan, Italy and Adjunct Professor of Communication Measurement at IE Business School, Madrid, Spain. Her research interests include communication measurement, reputation management and stakeholder engagement.

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ISBN 13	9781787692923
ISBN 10	1787692922
Title	Public Relations and the Power of Creativity
Author	Sarah Bowman
Series	Advances In Public Relations And Communication Management
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Emerald Publishing Limited
Year published	2018-10-04
Number of pages	256
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