Research methods

Deinstitutionalization and Reinstitutionalization: The Emergence of Internal Communication in the 1960s and 1970s – Source of the Month (April 2025)

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How are institutions able to change? If institutional structures which create recursive and taken for granted social structures – from dining to families to society to politics to working and way beyond – are so embedded in our social behaviour, how are we able to alter them? If we are trapped, as DiMaggio and Powell […]

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A Message in a Battle: Contested Interpretations in Communication – Source of the Month (January 2024)

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From Industrial Welfare, the magazine of the Industrial Society, in April 1965. What did you take as the message of this picture? For many of you, it was probably the environmental consequences of a throw-away culture. When this advert was produced in 1965, the complete opposite reaction was anticipated from readers. The hope was that

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