Showing papers by "Lee Edwards published in 2013"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors map the failure of regulation to control user behaviour, consider various policy and academic research approaches to understand users, and introduce an analytical framework that re-evaluates user resistance as expressions of legitimate justifications.
Abstract: With illegal downloading at the centre of debates about the creative economy, various policy initiatives and regulatory attempts have tried (and largely failed) to control, persuade and punish users into adhering to copyright law. Rights holders, policymakers, intermediaries and users each circulate and maintain particular attitudes about appropriate uses of digital media. This article maps the failure of regulation to control user behaviour, considers various policy and academic research approaches to understanding users, and introduces an analytical framework that re-evaluates user resistance as expressions of legitimate justifications. A democratic copyright policymaking process must accommodate the modes of justification offered by users to allow copyright law to reconnect with the public interest goals at its foundation.
29 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the relationship between trade media and the construction of occupational legitimacy in the context of professional projects, using the example of public relations, and demonstrate how jurisdiction, practice and practitioners are constructed through media discourses in ways that serve the professional project articulated by the powerful actors in the field.
Abstract: This article explores the relationship between trade media and the construction of occupational legitimacy in the context of professional projects, using the example of public relations. We suggest that the practices of trade journalism result in such media playing the role of an institutional sub-system within occupational fields such as public relations, helping to construct occupational archetypes that have disciplinary effects on practitioners and provide the basis for public claims to legitimacy. We illustrate our argument by presenting the results of a critical discourse analysis of PRWeek, the main trade publication for public relations in the UK, to demonstrate how jurisdiction, practice and practitioners are constructed through media discourses in ways that serve the professional project articulated by the powerful actors in the field.
24 citations
TL;DR: This article explored the institutionalized nature of racism in public relations in the United Kingdom, a situation that originates in the occupation's history and continues to disadvantage PR practitioners from Black, Asian, and other minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
Abstract: This article explores the institutionalized nature of racism in public relations (PR) in the United Kingdom, a situation that originates in the occupation's history and continues to disadvantage PR practitioners from Black, Asian, and other minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. Drawing on a qualitative study of the experiences of BAME PR practitioners, I consider how institutional racism makes itself felt in their professional lives and the strategies they use to address it. My central argument is that institutional racism operates across the PR industry, potentially affecting their mediation of culture both within and beyond the context of cultural production.
21 citations
Book Chapter•
01 Jan 2013
15 citations
TL;DR: A plenary panel with the same title as the one above at the third Barcelona International PR Conference held on 2-3 July 2013 as mentioned in this paper emerged from a plenary session on encyclopedias.
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Patent•
30 Apr 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the authors described compounds useful for treating diseases which respond to the blockade of the epithelial sodium channel, and pharmaceutical compositions that contain the compounds are also described, and they described the properties of the compounds.
Abstract: Compounds are described useful for treating diseases which respond to the blockade of the epithelial sodium channel. Pharmaceutical compositions that contain the compounds are also described.
Patent•
30 May 2013
TL;DR: In this article, a compound of formula (I) or a salt, suitably a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or solvate thereof, wherein the groups R, R, Ar', A and Y are defined in the description, to compositions and use of the compounds in the treatment of inflammatory and allergic pathologic conditions.
Abstract: The present invention concerns a compound of formula (I)or a salt, suitably a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or solvate thereof, wherein the groups R, R, Ar', A and Y are defined in the description, to compositions and use of the compounds in the treatment of inflammatory and allergic pathologic conditions.