Water Crisis In Flint Michigan – A Case Study: Water Crisis In Flint Michigan – A Case Study

This case study is designed to provide detailed information about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan brought on by a series of decisions that could have been researched better prior to enactment. The results were catastrophic to the citizens that public officials were sworn to protect. This case study will provide university classes with information to use while analyzing the causes and decisions that lead to the Flint Water Crisis. This study is not designed to provide all information, but to supplement class research in order to determine what happened and what should have happened. Available research offers numerous issues and plenty of blame, but no definitive answers

Defining the ‘object’ of public relations research: A new starting point

In this article I consider the importance of paradigmatic variety in the scholarly field of public relations. I reflect on the role that both conflict and cooperation between different paradigms play in the development of academic fields, and review definitions of public relations to examine the extent to which both are present in public relations scholarship. Based on this discussion, I consider the assumptions that underpin existing approaches to public relations in order to reveal the ways in which they are connected, as well as differentiated, along a series of continua. I conclude by proposing a new definition of public relations, as flow rather than organizational function, that can accommodate the range of research encompassed by these continua, thereby facilitating greater unity, inclusivity and, I would hope, dialogue in the field