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Refugee organizations’ public communication : conceptualising and exploring new avenues for an underdeveloped research subject
- Source :
- MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION, Media and Communication, Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes, Media and Communication, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 195-206 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- The world has faced a major increase in forced displacement and the theme has also become the subject of many public, media and political debates. The public communication of refugee organizations thereby increasingly impacts their operations, the public perception on forcibly displaced people and societal and policy beliefs and actions. However, little research has been conducted on the topic. Therefore, this conceptual article aims to (1) define refugee organizations’ public communication, (2) situate it within broader research fields, and (3) motivate the latter’s relevance as research perspectives. In order to be able to achieve these research objectives, the article first discusses the social and scientific relevance of the research subject and identifies important gaps within literature which both form an essential scientific base for developing the main arguments. Adopting a historical perspective, the article demonstrates that in recent decades the social and scientific relevance of research on strategic and non-profit communication in general and on refugee organizations’ public communication in particular have increased. Nevertheless, these fields remain underdeveloped and are mostly text-focused, while the production and reception dimensions are barely explored. Remarkably, however, little or no research has been conducted from an organizational communication perspective, although this article demonstrates that the subject can be adequately embedded in and examined from the fields of strategic, non-profit and public communication. Finally, the article highlights the relevance of the holistic Communicative Constitution of Organizations perspective and argues that future research can benefit by adopting multi-perspective, practice-oriented, multi-methodological, comparative and/or interdisciplinary approaches.
- Subjects :
- Organisationen
CIVIL-SOCIETY
Social Sciences
ddc:070
Sociology & anthropology
lcsh:Communication. Mass media
communication policy
humanism
0508 media and communications
public communication
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of the Science of Communication
public communications
Strategic communication
refugee
CRISIS
Migration
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Communication
Displaced person
05 social sciences
Organisationssoziologie, Militärsoziologie
Public relations
lcsh:P87-96
Organizational Sociology
refugee organizations
strategic communication
COMMUNITY
Forced migration
ddc:300
Kommunikationspolitik
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Kommunikationswissenschaften
ddc:301
NEWS COVERAGE
ACCESS
displacement crises
Civil society
Kommunikationsforschung
Humanismus
Refugee
Subject (philosophy)
050801 communication & media studies
050905 science studies
MEDIA
NGOS
Politics
Political science
Communicative Constitution of Organizations
mediated humanitarianism
non-profit communication
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
POLITICS
AGENDA
News media, journalism, publishing
organizations
communication research
business.industry
öffentliche Kommunikation
REPRESENTATIONS
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Flüchtling
Organizational communication
Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen
0509 other social sciences
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21832439
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION, Media and Communication, Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes, Media and Communication, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 195-206 (2019)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....60871e4ab8c93618afa931f4284eb6aa