Saeed Dashtizad; Mahnaz Farahmand; Hossein Afrasiyabi; Seyed Alireza Afshani
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Dissemination and free access to information of government organizations with constant care and removal of obstacles related to it guarantees the health of society and the organization. Therefore, the phenomenon of self-censorship in the public relations of government organizations should be considered ...
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Dissemination and free access to information of government organizations with constant care and removal of obstacles related to it guarantees the health of society and the organization. Therefore, the phenomenon of self-censorship in the public relations of government organizations should be considered as one of the major obstacles in this direction. Recognizing and analyzing the causes and contexts of this phenomenon can be a necessary and important step in removing these obstacles. This study was conducted with the aim of in-depth study of the experiences of public relations managers of government organizations in Yazd. It wants to discover and identify their causes and motives in self-censorship. This research has been done in the framework of qualitative studies and in a phenomenological way. The reliability of the research data has been verified based on four criteria of validity; Portability; Verifiability; And reliability. The research findings were classified into 15 sub-topics and 4 main topics. The data show that four factors are influential at the individual, organizational, and extra-organizational levels, including insecurity and need, command-orientation, adherence to the prevailing discourse, and expediency. Considering the great impact of the mentioned factors on the views of public relations managers of government organizations in self-censorship, it can be concluded that facilitating the flow of information as one of the necessities of community development requires serious attention of officials and policy makers to the position and role of public relations.
Mohammad Azizian; Ali Mohammad Mazidi Sharafabadi; Hossein Islami
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Social media is an integral part of organizations and one of the most important dimensions to help public relations activities and leads to the development of organizational activities, but the way of using these media properly is very important. In this regard, the present study was conducted with the ...
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Social media is an integral part of organizations and one of the most important dimensions to help public relations activities and leads to the development of organizational activities, but the way of using these media properly is very important. In this regard, the present study was conducted with the aim of presenting the public relations model of the Tehran subway with emphasis on social media. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive- survey in terms of method and was done with a sequential mixed-method approach. The statistical population of the study consists of academic experts in the field of public relations and media and professionals working in Tehran Metro Company. In this study, a judgmental sampling method was used and the data collection tools were interviews and questionnaires. First, in the qualitative section, to identify the components of the model, interviews were conducted until the theoretical saturation was reached, and the collected data were coded and analyzed through Max QDA software. Then, the importance and effect of the components extracted from the qualitative part were determined through the Fuzzy Datmil method. The results showed that for social media, the main components of media communication and ease of use of social media have been identified as influential factors of the relevant model, and social media information as an impressionable factor. Also for Tehran metro public relations, the component of communication development in public relations was identified as an impressionable factor and public relations development was identified as an effective factor. Each of these components has effective and impressionable indicators that are presented in the conclusion.
