Study Suggests Taking an Aggressive Stance in Crisis Communications Costs Companies Money

A new study tracked 10 years of data to capture shifts in how corporate interests and the public discussed a complex legal situation – and how those dynamics related to stock price. The bottom line? When the company took an aggressive stance, its stock price dropped.

Shutdowns, like elections, have winners and losers. Virginia Tech expert explains the optics and how it impacts elections.

The political optics of a government shutdown Shutdowns, like elections, have winners and losers. Virginia Tech public relations expert Cayce Myers says the perception of who caused the shutdown and who didn’t frequently becomes part of a larger political narrative…

Comm Arts Chula Offers 2 New Courses on Creating Fun Games to Dazzle Digital Natives

To keep abreast with the world of modern communication, the Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University (Comm Arts Chula) is offering 2 brand new courses on creative media in the form of games through a cross-disciplinary approach alongside Chula Engineering and College of Public Health Sciences to create a media that’s accessible and appealing to the digital-age audience.

Think all BPA-free products are safe? Not so fast, scientists warn

Using “BPA-free” plastic products could be as harmful to human health — including a developing brain — as those products that contain the controversial chemical, suggest scientists in a new study led by the University of Missouri and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.