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Kirk Hallahan
Researcher at Colorado State University
Publications - 31
Citations - 2792
Kirk Hallahan is an academic researcher from Colorado State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Framing (social sciences) & Newspaper. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 30 publications receiving 2527 citations.
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Seven Models of Framing: Implications for Public Relations
TL;DR: This article identified seven distinct types of framing applicable to public relations, i.e., situations, attributes, choices, actions, issues, responsibility, and news, and discussed potential applications for public relations practice and research.
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Defining Strategic Communication
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the nature of strategic communication, defined as the purposeful use of communication by an organization to fulfill its mission, and identified key aspects of communication.
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Inactive publics: the forgotten publics in public relations∗
TL;DR: Hallahan et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a model that locates inactive publics among five categories of publics along the dimensions of knowledge and involvement, which provides a theoretically rich alternative for how public relations practitioners might conceptualize publics, a central concept in public relations theory and practice.
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The Dynamics of Issues Activation and Response: An Issues Processes Model
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive issues processes model based on a typology of four key types of publics found in public relations is presented, which can be labeled active (high knowledge and high involvement), aroused (high involvement and low knowledge), aware, low knowledge, and inactive.
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Content Class as a Contextual Cue in the Cognitive Processing of Publicity Versus Advertising
TL;DR: This paper defined the difference between news and advertising in terms of content class, a contextual variable that serves as a cue during cognitive processing of mediated messages, and provided only qualified support for claims about the superior performance of news over advertising.