Evaluating Public Communication: Exploring New Models, Standards, and Best Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138228573 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 392 str.

Jim MacNamara

Opis

Evaluating Public Communication addresses the widely reported lack of rigorous outcome and impact oriented evaluation in advertising; public relations; corporate, government, political, and organizational communication; and specialist fields such as health communication. This transdisciplinary analysis integrates research literature from each of these fields of practice as well as primary research including interviews, content analysis, and ethnography inside the world of evaluating public communication to identify the latest models and approaches. It presents in-depth of analysis of public communication and features:

• A review of 30 frameworks and models that inform processes for evaluation in advertising, public relations, health communication and promotion, government communication and other specialist fields including the latest recommendations of industry bodies, evaluation councils, and research institutes in several countries;
• Recommendations for standards based on contemporary social science research and industry initiatives such as the Task Force for Standardization of Communication Planning and Evaluation Models and the Coalition for Public Relations Research Standards;
• A comprehensive review of metrics that can inform evaluation including digital and social media metrics, 10 informal research methods, and more than 30 formal research methods for evaluating public communication; and
• A dozen contemporary case studies of evaluation of public communication campaigns and projects.

Evaluating Public Communication provides clear guidance on theory and practice for students of PR, advertising and all fields of communication.

Recenzje

This is the most comprehensive book on evaluation that has been written to date. It covers all the bases, from the latest research to evaluation frameworks and a comprehensive list of the methods and metrics that can be used – all brought to life with a series of excellent case studies. As usual, Jim Macnamara is thorough and thoughtful in his approach, and he reinforces the point that evaluation requires a rounded view and judgements to be made. There is no silver bullet, human communication is far too complicated for that. Professor Anne Gregory, University of Huddersfield, UK

Spis treści

List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements. Introduction. PART 1 – The Foundations of Evaluation 1. Why We Need to Critically Examine Communication 2. Evaluation of Communication – Key Concepts, Principles, and Theories 3. Models Informing Evaluation of Communication PART 2 – The Practice of Evaluation 4. Metrics, Analytics, and Beyond – The Evolving Evaluation Landscape 5. Informal Methods to Evaluate Public Communication 6. Research Approaches and Key Procedures 7. Quantitative Methods to Evaluate Public Communication 8. Qualitative and Mixed Methods to Evaluate Public Communication 9. Reporting and Using Evaluation PART 3 – Case Studies in Evaluation 10. Learning from Best (and Worst) Practice – International Case Studies

O autorze

Jim Macnamara is Professor of Public Communication at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Previously CEO of a leading research company specializing inevaluation of communication, he is the author of 16 books on media and communication, including, most recently, Organizational Listening: The Missing Essential in Public Communication (2016).