Notes for "The Press and Public Relations: An Exploratory Study of Editors' Perceptions of Public Relations Specialists"

¹Joseph A. Maxwell, Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1996), 69.

²Ibid, 70.

³Robert L. Heath, "Critical Perspectives on Public Relations," in Rhetorical and Critical Approaches to Public Relations, eds. Elizabeth L. Toth and Robert L. Heath (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1992), 18.

⁴Lynn M. Sallot, Thomas M. Steinfatt and Michael B. Salwen, "Journalists and Public Relations Practitioners' News Values: Perceptions and Cross-perceptions," Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly 75 (Summer 1998):370.

⁵Ibid, 372.

⁶Timothy N. Walters, Lynn Masel Walters and Douglas P. Starr, "After the Highwayman: Syntax and Successful Placement of Press Releases in Newspapers," Public Relations Quarterly (1994):346-47.

⁷Ibid, 346.

⁸Robert A. Carroll, "An Analysis of Attitudes of Daily Newspaper Education Writers Toward Public Relations Practitioners in Higher Education" (Doctoral diss., University of Southern Mississippi, 1992).

⁹Gary Robert Ratliff, "Ivory Towers, Watchdogs and Boosters: A Comparative Case Study of How Metropolitan Newspapers Cover Research Universities" (Doctoral diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996).

¹⁰Judy Van Slyke, "Subsidizing the News: Public Information Officers and Their Impact on Media Coverage of State Government" (Doctoral diss., Syracuse University, 1985), 297.

¹¹Ibid.

¹²Brian John Biggar, "PR flacks and media hacks: Public relations and the News Media" (Master's thesis, Carleton University, 1995).

¹³Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Garden City: Doubleday/Anchor, 1967).

¹⁴Wayne Woodward, "Triadic Communication as Transactional Participation," Critical Studies in Mass Communication 13 (1996):155-174.

¹⁵Tuchman, Gay. Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978).

¹⁶Anderson, Alison, Media, Culture and the Environment (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997).

¹⁷Ibid, 72.

¹⁸Serge Moscovici, "The Phenomenon of Social Representations," in Social Representations, eds. Robert M. Farr and Serge Moscovici (New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984), 67.

¹⁹Bibb Latané, "The Psychology of Social Impact," American Psychologist, 36 (April 1981):343.

²⁰Ibid.

²¹Pascall Huguet and Bibb Latané, "Social Representations as Dynamic Social Impact," Journal of Communication 46 (Autumn 1996):58.

²²Kurt Lewin, Field theory in social science (New York: Harper & Row, 1951).

²³Ibid, 27.

²⁴Ibid.

²⁵Ibid.

²⁶Earl Babbie. The practice of social research (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company), 280.

²⁷Ibid, 266.

²⁸Marlys Mayfield, Thinking for yourself, 3rd ed., (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1994).

²⁹Van Slyke, op. cit., 28.

³⁰Ibid, 35.