May 27, 2015

"Communicating on social media sites should be akin to having a conversation where the organization is both listening and conversing without ulterior motives." So said Dr. Tina McCorkindale and Dr. Hilary Fussell Sisco when they described their Page Center-supported work to the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in San Juan, Puerto Rico recently. For more information,… More

April 29, 2015

George Anghelcev has been appointed this year as senior research fellow at the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication.  He brings an array of international research and teaching experience to his position. 

An associate professor of advertising/public relations in the College of Communications at Penn State University, Anghelcev has taught and lectured at universities in… More

April 13, 2015

Page Center Research projects will be highlighted in two panel discussions at a pre-conference session of the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA) in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Thursday, May 21.  The session is titled Ethical Stakeholder Engagement: A Showcase of Projects from the Arthur W. Page Center.

The Organizer for the event is… More

March 11, 2015

Work funded by the Page Center was presented at the International Public Relations Research Conference in Miami, FL March 5-7.  Lucinda Austin of Elon University, Yan Gin of the University of Georgia and Brooke Fisher Liu of the University of Maryland examined how “…traditional and social media produce and distribute crisis information for publics through interviews with journalists experienced… More

February 26, 2015

When people read negative Facebook posts about an organization, it erodes their trust in the institution and diminishes its reputation.  Efforts to “inoculate” readers against damaging messages, however, do appear to mitigate the harm somewhat.  One of the first formal studies to confirm the impact of negative social media content has been published in the February 2015 issue of… More

February 18, 2015

Michel M. Haigh is a newly appointed senior research fellow at the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication.  She is an associate professor of advertising/public relations in the College of Communications at Penn State University and brings to her career a mix of practical and teaching experience. 

Among her work for the Page… More