This article examines, via a survey of public relations practitioners working below senior management level, whether technician - type roles, far from being a ‘velvet ghetto’, are now providing a place in which a ...

This paper proposes to build on Gilbert Simondon’s theory of the concretization of technological objects and apply the developed theory to the emerging area of software studies. Simondon’s theory of concretization describes ...

More than forty years after the Second Wave feminist movement emerged in the Western world, it is frequently claimed that feminism is “dead” or redundant, and that we now live in a “postfeminist” society. Although such ...

This article provides key tips for feminists on how to attract positive news coverage. The advice was based on 40 years research on how the women's movement has been reported on in British and American newspapers.

This article analyses the framing in four British and American newspapers of the second wave feminist movement during its most politically active period (1968–1982). Using content and critical discourse analysis of 555 ...

This article examines and compares how four British and American newspapers reported the second-wave feminist movement during its most active political period, 1968–1982. Through the use of both content analysis and critical ...

This article explores how public relations practitioners use the microblogging tool Twitter to maintain and build social capital. Social capital, a concept popularised in the social sciences by Bourdieu, involves the ...