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Co-Creation of Meaning:Strategic Communication and the Sovereign Public
C. Botan
1. What is StratComm?
2. Cocreation View
3. What makes publics a sovereign power?
Public = group of people with common views and interests on a topic
Preview
Grand strategy = policy level
Strategy = campaign level (planning)
Tactics = application/execution
Overlap, look at essence
Authority flows down
Reality flows up
Grand Strategy-Strategy-Tactics
Communication campaign planning
Pays shows this (17th)
Brings strategic info into organization
Not tactical level
Pay shows
Most strategists do some tactics
Today is call to professionalize StratComm
What is StratComm
Big 3 Public Relations (PR) Marketing Communication and IMC Public Health Communication
Other fields Political Communication Anti-terrorism Public diplomacy Nation building
Branches of same tree
StratComm
Since Information Revolution
WHAT we communicate about has changed
HOW and HOW MUCH has changed
WHO communicates changed
Today publics create & share own views
We All Know . . .
Cocreation of meaning
Publics integrate own experiences and values with what senders say to create new understandings
Culture, family, religion, personal experience, goals, opinions of friends, etc.
Not new idea – just new to StratComm practice
Marketing communication (value)/PR lead
Cocreation
Clients/employers decide if we can pay our rent and buy food.
Publics decide if campaigns succeed or fail
Outside of campaign
We answer to publics, they do not answer to
Sovereign Publics
WANT to know if publics understanding different
WANT to know if publics negative, skeptical, angry
Publics make own decision based largely on the info they already have. So . . .
StratComm begins and ends with research
Sovereign Means . . .
Questions welcome
Thank You