From image restoration to renewal: Approaches to understanding postcrisis communication

Review of Communication

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-141

  Seeger, Matthew W ^a   Padgett, Donayle R Griffin ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis; Crisis Response Strategies; Image Restoration; Renewal

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957034519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15358593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15358590903545263     Document Type: Article

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