PR Top Papers Interview

By Heather Martyn -- 11/21/08 Nonpublics, active publics, aware publics - all of these stakeholders are important for the public relations professional to acknowledge when problem-solving for any organization.  Hoping to one-day work as a professional in the field of public relations, I attended the session titled, "Top Papers in Public Relations" in search of further knowledge on the field.
What I left with was a broader view on the public relations profession and various incidents that have occurred worldwide that have shaped the profession.
Below is an interview with Suzanne E. Boys of the University of Cincinnati as she discusses her paper, "An Extended Rhetorical Typology of Crisis Communication:  Managing the Roman Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis."

Below is the interview with Brant R. Burleson as he discusses the paper that he and other researchers compiled titled, "What Women Know and Feel about Social Support that Men Don't: Two Tests of a Dual-Process Approach to Explaining Sex Differences in Response to Supportive Messages." This paper was part of a panel of the "Top Four Papers in Interpersonal Communication: Unconventionally Good Scholarship." The primary focus of these panelist's papers were to discuss how communication differs among men and women, whether in platonic or romantic relationships.