The scholar we chose to interview for this assignment is Dr. Elise Anguizola Assaf, who is a communication professor at Cal State Fullerton. Dr. Assaf is an assistant professor in the Department of Communications, primarily teaching public relations courses in the undergraduate communications program. She has completed her Ph.D. in Education at Chapman University, and holds a M.A. in Communications and a B.A. in Communications, emphasis in public relations, from Cal State Fullerton. Dr. Assaf’s research interests combine her communications and disability studies backgrounds, looking at representations of mental health in media. Her work focuses on qualitative methods, including content analysis and critical discourse analysis of texts in order to understand linguistic elements and sources of power.
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Internet Privacy Concerns In The 21st Century
A Rising Issue for Internet Users All Around The World
The creation of the internet has been revolutionary in changing the world and the society we live in. It has enabled to do things we may have never thought were possible 20 years ago. We can instantly communicate with others across the world through texts and chat. We can even see the faces of our loved ones as we video chat with relatives thousands of miles away. The internet along with technology such as the smartphone gives us unprecedented power in the palm of our hand; allowing us to access to unlimited information, social media platforms, health tracking applications, GPS guidance, online shopping and more. As our lives become increasingly intertwined with the internet and technology, our privacy is at stake. Our personal data is knowingly and more often, unknowingly gathered while we use the internet. This data includes, but is not limited to a person’s geolocation, purchasing habits, search history tendencies and social media posts. This collection of data unbeknownst to the user, is a cause for rising concern as users are not only unaware of what type of data is being collected, but also when it is being collected and what is is being used for.
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An Interview with Janicke-Bowels
Intro
We had an interview with Sophie Janicke-Bowles, a professor at Chapman University, regarding her study on the impact of different kinds of video on work-related well-being. In the study, Dr. Janicke-Bowles and her colleagues had an online experiment with 200 full-time employees in the US to explore the role of inspiring effect and positive effect on three distinct well-being outcomes: subjective well-being, psychological well-being, and social well-being at the workplace.
Continue reading “An Interview with Janicke-Bowels”A discussion with Dr. Bey-Ling Sha: Future professionals’ perceptions of work, life, and gender issues in public relations
We had an opportunity to talk to Dean Sha about her research “Future professionals’ perceptions of work, life, and gender issues in public relations.” The study was a census gathered through the Public Relations Student Society of America that looked at what public relations students felt were gender issues in the field. The researchers found that there was a significant difference in how men and women viewed gender equity in promotion, work-life balance and salaries.
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Dr. Ricardo Valencia is currently a public relations professor teaching at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Valencia has years of experience with global communications, from being a reporter covering international politics and global media outlets, to being the head of communications at the Embassy of El Salvador to the U.S. Dr. Valencia received his doctorate in Media Studies from the University of Oregon. Dr. Valencia has a plethora of information about global public relations, and was able to share this knowledge and more with us during our extensive interview with him. Our interview covered the topic of how the world of public relations and communications will look after Covid-19 is over; however, we delved even deeper and looked into the way in which the global pandemic and rising political movements have shaped companies’ views of the value of public relations.
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We sat down with Dr. Bey-Ling Sha, Dean of the College of Communications at Cal State Fullerton, to discuss her research study on workplace issues in public relations. The 2005 study, “Future Professionals’ Perception of Work, Life, and Gender Issues in Public Relations,” discusses the impression public relations college students have before entering the field. Below are our interview questions and Dr. Sha’s responses.
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Introduction
Dr. Henry Puente is an Associate Professor of Communications at Cal State Fullerton. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Texas – Austin, an MA in Communications Management from U.S.C. and a Radio-Television-Film from Cal State Fullerton. His research focuses on how Latinx films have been promoted and distributed in the movie industry. He currently teaches entertainment and tourism at Cal State Fullerton. Dr. Puente has worked extensively in the entertainment industry and has done several research proposals about the industry.
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Introduction and Expertise
Waleed Rashidi currently works as a professor in the Communications department at Cal State University, Fullerton. He has extensive experience in the music industry and a passion for understanding upcoming trends in entertainment. As a collector of thousands of vinyl records, hundreds of CDs, and an avid music listener, Rashidi’s interest in music motivates his career as well as his research. He estimates he possesses around 3,000 – 4,000 vinyl records.
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“Public relations is about sharing the right information to the right people at the right places and times–to build a brand reputation into a specific image”.
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Dr. Robert Meeds has over 40 published works from his expansive career as a researcher and professor. His most cited year was 2013, reaching 52 citations (figure 1). Focused in advertising and psycholinguistics, Dr. Meeds provides robust insight and experience to the common undergraduate research student. His expertise was greatly appreciated in our interview as we questioned his inspiration as a researcher, technical wisdom, overall influence and appreciation for research. This interview focused on Dr. Meeds’ publication “Cognitive and attitudinal effects of technical advertising copy: the roles of gender, self-assessed and objective consumer knowledge” (Meeds, 2004), but went beyond this specific study and questioned the bigger picture of being a researcher and the details of the profession.
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The Society for Communications Research 