My, how times have changed.
It doesn’t matter how much you planned to read during the weekend; you’ll probably end up reading just 1/10th. Here’s an article deserving to be in that “short list”:
(PDF) The Cultural Tribes of Public Relations – Greg Leichty, Department of Communication, University of Louisville (published in the Journal of Public Relations Research, volume 15, issue 4, pp. 277–304)
This article applies a cultural theory of rhetoric to discourse about public relations. It proposes that 5 distinct cultural voices are recognizable in conversations about public relations. These voices are illustrated in texts that define and critique public relations practice. These competing cultural visions cannot be united into 1 coherent vision. Public relations is a multicultural field that is constituted by this ongoing competitive dialogue.
Enjoy.
Phil Gomes (in a comment on Mike Driehorst’s blog):
Here’s to a Web 2.0 world where people remember that the “Send” button, though older and less-cool, is sometimes more appropriate than “Publish.”
(*) Doc Searls: I’ve said before that blogging is a way of sending emails that go “cc:world”.
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