Spiro Kiousis
Executive Associate Dean/Professor | University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, UNITED STATES
Spiro Kiousis’ research interests include political public relations, political communication, and digital communication.
Biography
Spiro Kiousis is executive associate dean for the College of Journalism and Communications and is a professor of public relations. His current research interests include political public relations, political communication, and digital communication. Specifically, this interdisciplinary research explores the interplay among political public relations efforts, news media content, and public opinion in traditional and interactive mass mediated contexts.
Areas of Expertise (5)
Strategic Communication
Public Relations Campaign
Political Public Relations
Political Communication
Research and Strategy
Articles (4)
President Trump vs. CEOs: a comparison of presidential and corporate agenda building
Journal of Public Relations ResearchXiaomeng Lan, et al.
2020-01-23
The purpose of this study was to compare the agenda-building influence of President Trump and CEOs in communicating about a number of political and social issues.
He who pays the piper, calls the tune? Examining Russia’s and Poland’s public diplomacy efforts to shape the international coverage of the Smolensk crash
Public Relations ReviewLiudmila Khalitova, et al.
2019-11-26
The study explores Polish and Russian governments’ communication efforts to shape international news coverage of the 2010 airplane crash near Smolensk, Russia, which killed the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and most of his Cabinet.
Mediated public diplomacy in the digital age: Exploring the Saudi and the U.S. governments’ agenda-building during Trump’s visit to the Middle East
Public Relations ReviewOsama Albishri, et al.
2019-10-25
This study analyzed the agenda-building capacity of political public relations messages of the Saudi and the U.S. governments during Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East and scrutinized their influence on the media coverage and public opinion.
Two tales of one crash: Intergovernmental media relations and agenda building during the Smolensk airplane crash
International Communication GazetteBarbara Myslik, et al.
2019-07-19
This study aims to advance the theoretical and practical knowledge of political public relations, and influence that political profile of the media can have on the agenda-building process. The influences of agenda indexing are also discussed with regard to different media profiles.
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