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ENTERTAINING CRISIS: WHAT 21ST CENTURY CORPORATIONS CAN LEARN FROM THE RHETORIC OF CRISIS IN FILM AND COMPUTER GAMES

This project aims to discover if there is useful overlap between the recommended rhetorical responses to crises as defined by organizational communication specialists and the rhetorical responses frequently portrayed in various forms of mass media entertainment. Specifically, it investigates the potential effectiveness of these mass mediated crisis portrayals and identifies whether the rhetoric of crisis depicted in them could help inform and educate organizational responders to better communicate internally in crisis scenarios. This research may provide a better understanding of how rhetoric in real and fictive contexts works to shape real-world responses to crises.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/145449
Date January 2011
CreatorsFurtner, Anita Lynn
ContributorsMcAllister, Kenneth, Benson, Lehman, Kimme Hea, Amy
PublisherThe University of Arizona.
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Dissertation, text
RightsCopyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.

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