Public Interest Communication: Critical Debates and Global Contexts

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Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Public Interest Communication: Critical Debates and Global
Contexts: An introduction
	Chapter run down
	In conclusion
	References
PART I: Critical debates
	1. Public interest communication: A framework for systematic inquiry
		Introduction
		Public interest – a political idea
		Public interest and communication: foundations
		‘The phantom public’, ‘The Public’ and ‘many publics’
		Deliberative praxis and the public interest
		Public interest and public relations
		Power, communication and the public interest
		Defining and analysing public interest communication
		Emerging themes
		Note
		References
	2. Terministic dialectics of individual and community agency: Co-creating and co-enacting public interest
		Introduction
		Public interest as dialectical tensions
		Public interest’s critical legitimacy debates
		Hydrocarbons as public interest political discourse
		Environmental discourse: public interest communication
		Discourse arenas: public interest battlegrounds
		Resisting resistance: dialectics of individual/public interest
		Scientific interpretation
		God’s will
		Watchdogs of the discourse arena
		Conclusions
		References
	3. Communicating public engagement, public interest and participation: Culturally centring community voices
		Introduction
		Critically interrogating engagement
		Power, control, and communicative inversion
		Consolidating organisational reach
		Erasures in listening to the margins
		Culture-centred approach to listening
		Listening and new ways of organising
		Listening and the role of the communicator
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	4. Climate change and the public interest: Science, legitimacy and diversity
		Introduction
		The depoliticisation of climate change
		The hidden politics of climate change
		Ecological modernisation: scientific construction of the public interest
		Renewable energy
		Climate justice
		The importance of dissensus
		Conclusions
		References
	5. Commercial media platforms and the challenges to public expression and scrutiny
		Introduction
		Public culture as an engineering problem
		Media platforms and digital democracy
		Public communication is participation in training machines
		Public communication is participation in experiments
		Media engineering and the public interest
		References
PART II: Global contexts
	6. Articulating national identity in postcolonial democracies: Defining relations and interests through competing publics
		Introduction
		Africa and the aftermath of colonialism
		Postcolonial Ghana
		Postcolonial Mozambique
		Articulation theory
		Identity crisis: public relations and the public interest
		Articulating a national identity: public relations and public interest
		References
	7. In whose interests?: Media, political communication and First Nations Australians
		Introduction
		Media and managing perceptions
		Whiteness and critical theory
		Mediatisation, public perceptions and Indigenous Australians
		Accountability and resourcing
		First Nations peoples and the public interest
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	8. Understanding the public interest puzzle in China’s public relations: The role of balance and counterbalance based on Confucian Great Harmony
		Introduction
		The public-private binary: foundation of public interest in the West
		Confucian Great Harmony: the system of interests in Chinese culture
		An open-ended process approach to public interest in Chinese public relations
		Primary data sources
		Harmony as a means of balance: creative strategies of negotiating public interest
		Harmony as a means of counterbalance: tacit rules and taboos
		Harmony as an end of dynamic equilibrium: incremental changes and the public interest
		Concluding remarks: harmony, the state and the public interest
		References
	9. Security, democratic legitimacy and the public interest: Policing and the communicative ritual in deeply divided societies
		Introduction
		The public interest and political theory
		The public interest and deliberative turns
		Social interaction and the communication ritual: ‘It’s good to talk’
		Policing and the public interest: communication and legitimisation
		Policing, communication and engagement in Northern Ireland
		Partners and Communities Together (PACT)
		Citizen-police interaction in Ferguson, St Louis
		Representation and legitimacy
		De-politicisation
		Conclusions
		References
	10. Lobbying for life: Violence against the press and the public interest
		Introduction
		Social movements and human rights campaigning
		Background: Mexican political context
		Violence against journalists
		Mexico’s epidemic of anti-press violence
		When civic coalitions meet public interest
		Special Prosecutor for Crimes Against Freedom of Expression
		Special task force to protect journalists
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Index