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Title: | An exploratory study on content and style as driving factors facilitating dialogic communication between corporations and publics on social media in China | Authors: | Ngai, CSB Einwiller, S Singh, RG |
Issue Date: | Mar-2020 | Source: | Public relations review, Mar. 2020, v. 46, no. 1, 101813 | Abstract: | Global corporations publicize on social networking sites (SNSs) to foster dialogic communication with publics as a form of building relationships. Yet the link between the content and style of the corporation communication from different cultural backgrounds and publics’ responses in the form of likes and retweets is under-researched. This empirical study explored how global corporations from China and Germany employ factors such as useful content topics and culturally-influenced communication styles to cultivate dialogic communication with publics on Sina Weibo, the largest SNS in China. Although both German and Chinese corporations similarly posted a range of content on products/services, corporate appeal and relationship building with no distinct significant differences in their communication styles, publics’ response varied noticeably in that they were more receptive to content on products/services disseminated by German corporations yet had greater responses to content on corporate appeal posted by Chinese corporations. In addition, publics were more inclined to react favorably to messages presented in an individualistic style of communication by German companies and messages in a collectivistic style by Chinese companies. The implications of how to effectively use SNS to engage in dialogue with publics are highlighted. | Keywords: | China Dialogic communication Engagement Global corporations Publics’ response SNS Social media |
Publisher: | Elsevier | Journal: | Public relations review | ISSN: | 0363-8111 | EISSN: | 1873-4537 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.pubrev.2019.101813 | Rights: | © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. © 2019. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. The following publication Ngai, C. S. B., Einwiller, S., & Singh, R. G. (2020). An exploratory study on content and style as driving factors facilitating dialogic communication between corporations and publics on social media in China. Public Relations Review, 46(1), 101813 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2019.101813. |
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