Karla Gower
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American public relations professor
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Karla Gower's Degrees
- PhD Communication University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Communication University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Communication University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Karla Gower Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karla K. Gower is an American public relations professor, focusing in journalism and media and strategic communication, currently the Behringer Distinguished Professor in the Advertising and Public Relations at University of Alabama. Since 2008, she has been the director of The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations.
Karla Gower's Published Works
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Published Works
- How do the news media frame crises? A content analysis of crisis news coverage (2009) (357)
- Framing effect on the public's response to crisis: Human interest frame and crisis type influencing responsibility and blame (2006) (177)
- Effective media communication of disasters: Pressing problems and recommendations (2007) (114)
- Public Relations Research at the Crossroads (2006) (107)
- A Test of Excellent Leadership in Public Relations: Key Qualities, Valuable Sources, and Distinctive Leadership Perceptions (2012) (58)
- Level of crisis responsibility and crisis response strategies of the media (2011) (45)
- Connective-Collective Action on Social Media: Moderated Mediation of Cognitive Elaboration and Perceived Source Credibility on Personalness of Source (2019) (44)
- Prepared for practice? Student perceptions about requirements and preparation for public relations practice (2006) (33)
- Truth and Transparency (2006) (32)
- Use of the Internet in the Public Relations Curriculum (2001) (30)
- The Internet and Litigation Public Relations (2006) (26)
- US corporate public relations in the progressive era (2008) (25)
- Assessing Newspaper Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies (2006) (24)
- Source effects in the micro-mobilization of collective action via social media (2015) (23)
- A methodological evaluation of public relations research (2011) (18)
- Public relations and the press : the troubled embrace (2007) (18)
- Rediscovering Women in Public Relations (2001) (16)
- Status of Image Management Research in Public Relations: A Cross-Discipline Content Analysis of Studies Published Between 1991 and 2011 (2014) (14)
- Legal and Ethical Restraints on Public Relations (2003) (8)
- Excellent Leadership in Public Relations: An Integrating Conceptual Framework (2009) (8)
- Principles of Publicity and Press Freedom (2003) (7)
- The Effect of Framing on Publics Perception of Crisis: Human Interest Frame Effect on Attributions to Responsibility and Blame (2006) (7)
- Avow or Avoid? (2006) (5)
- The fear of public relations in foreign affairs: an examination of the 1963 Fulbright Hearings into foreign agents (2005) (4)
- The Role of Leadership in Building Inclusive Diversity in Public Relations (2022) (2)
- The Opinions of Mankind: Racial Issues, Press, and Progaganda in the Cold War (2011) (2)
- Building One's Own Gallows: The Trade Publications' Reaction To A Federal Shield Law, 1972–1974 (1997) (2)
- The Persistent Problem of Media Taxation: First Amendment Protection in the 1990S (1997) (2)
- Mission Accomplished: Margaret Sanger and the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, 1929–1937 (2008) (1)
- Looking Northward: Canada's Approach to Commercial Expression (2005) (1)
- Public Relations on Trial (2003) (1)
- Liberty and Authority in Free Expression Law: The United States and Canada (2002) (1)
- Protecting staff and patients (2006) (1)
- Corporate Reputation and the Discipline of Corporate Communication Law (2013) (1)
- Speaking Our Minds: Conversations with the People Behind Landmark First Amendment Cases (2002) (1)
- Courting the Media: Public Relations for the Accused and the Accuser (2007) (1)
- Who Goes to the Game? A Model of Organization-Public Relationships and Team Identification with Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions (2021) (1)
- Editor's Note (2003) (0)
- Editor's Note (2003) (0)
- SEEKING A PLACE IN THE SUN: SEPIA MAGAZINE'S ENDEAVOR FOR QUALITY JOURNALISM AND PLACE IN THE NEGRO MARKET, 1951-1982 (2011) (0)
- Editor's Note (2002) (0)
- Book Reviews (2003) (0)
- Editor's Note (2004) (0)
- Book Reviews (2002) (0)
- Editor's Note (2004) (0)
- The Historiography of North American Public Relations (2017) (0)
- Editor's Note (2003) (0)
- KING'S RETURN TO THE MALL: PUBLIC MEMORY AND THE RHETORIC OF THE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. NATIONAL MEMORIAL (2013) (0)
- Editor's Note (2004) (0)
- Editor's Note (2002) (0)
- Editor's Note (2004) (0)
- “Making Birth Control Respectable”: The Birth Control Review, 1917–1928 (2013) (0)
- Editor's Note (2002) (0)
- Disclosure in Online Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) Communication: What Does it Mean for Public Relations? (2012) (0)
- Agnes Smedley: A Radical Journalist in Search of a Cause (1996) (0)
- Eisenhower: The Public Relations President (2015) (0)
- Offline Activities Measure (2016) (0)
- Editor's Note (2003) (0)
- Public relations and the press (2007) (0)
- Interpersonal Source Effects in Online-Offline Collective Action: Triggering Participation From Unaffiliated Individuals (2014) (0)
- Editor's Note (2002) (0)
- Legal Considerations in Public Relations (2019) (0)
- Organizational Purpose, Culture, Crisis Leadership, and Social Media (2022) (0)
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