Conceptualizing Publics and Constructing Public Relations Theory: The Situational Theory of Problem Solving and Its New Research

2013 ◽  
pp. 166-182
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Situational Theory ◽  
New Research ◽  
Public Relations Theory

Discursive stickiness: Affective institutional texts and activist resistance

2021 ◽  
pp. 2046147X2110083
Author(s):  
Erica Ciszek ◽  
Richard Mocarsky ◽  
Sarah Price ◽  
Elaine Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Material Functions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gender Transgression ◽  
Historical Discourses ◽  
Institutional Texts ◽  
Public Relations Theory

Pushing the bounds of public relations theory and research, we explore how institutional texts have produced and reified stigmas around gender transgression and how these texts are bound up in moments of activism and resistance. We considered how different discursive and material functions get “stuck” together by way of texts and how this sticking depends on a history of association and institutionalization. Activism presents opportunities to challenge institutional and structural stickiness, and we argue that public relations can challenge the affective assemblages that comprise and perpetuate these systems, unsettling the historical discourses that have governed institutions by establishing new communicative possibilities.

What Makes People Hot? Applying the Situational Theory of Problem Solving to Hot-Issue Publics

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeong-Nam Kim ◽  
Lan Ni ◽  
Sei-Hill Kim ◽  
Jangyul Robert Kim
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Issue Publics ◽  
Situational Theory

Artificial Intelligence

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Steven Walczak
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
New Research

Artificial intelligence is the science of creating intelligent machines. Human intelligence is comprised of numerous pieces of knowledge as well as processes for utilizing this knowledge to solve problems. Artificial intelligence seeks to emulate and surpass human intelligence in problem solving. Current research tends to be focused within narrow, well-defined domains, but new research is looking to expand this to create global intelligence. This chapter seeks to define the various fields that comprise artificial intelligence and look at the history of AI and suggest future research directions.

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