Martina Topić
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2053250 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Martina Topić |
| NOMBRES | Martina |
| APELLIDO | Topić |
| FIRMA | TOPIĆ M |
| AFILIACIONES | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5894-2979 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
“Vanilla” workplace culture
Purpose Everyday workplace dining conversations function as a form of informal organizational communication within the US public relations industry. Drawing on Bourdieu's concepts of cultural capital, habitus, and taste, the study explores how conversational norms enacted during shared meals shape professional belonging, civility, and interactional boundaries in contemporary communication workplaces. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured qu…
Job satisfaction and career adaptability through the lenses of Bourdieu’s theory of practice and theory of elites
Purpose This study examines the social and cultural capital of mass communication practitioners using Bourdieu’s theory of practice and the theory of elites. It focuses specifically on US Hispanic and non-Hispanic practitioners to understand their experiences in the workplace and social and cultural capital as it relates to job satisfaction and career adaptability. Design/methodology/approach A total of 349 respondents completed a survey online t…
Women, masculinities and workplace culture in small and medium-size businesses in the Leeds City Region
Purpose This paper explored the workplace culture in small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in the Leeds City Region. The paper looked at perceived leadership expectations vs self-assessment of leadership characteristics and mindsets, as well as workplace culture respective to hierarchy and organisational supportiveness of SMEs as workplaces. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-methods approach was deployed, consisting of a survey with SMEs and…
“Have You Tried Amish Pie?”—Food, Inclusivity and Intercultural Communication in Public Relations Workplaces in the US
Drawing on the three dimensions of social capital (bonding, bridging, and linking), this study examines how food sharing in the workplace facilitates intercultural engagement among employees from diverse cultural backgrounds. Based on interviews with public relations practitioners representing a range of ages, positions, and levels of professional experience, the findings indicate that food inclusivity fosters workplace relationships, supports th…
“ … Like Confrontational About It, which I didn’t Expect” —An Analysis of Conversational Experiences of Women Vegans When Dining with Colleagues
This study is based on 28 interviews with women vegans based in England, UK. The study aimed to explore the everyday experiences and cultural capital of women vegans; however, interviewing revealed a large focus on the workplace culture as a place of exclusion, expanding the research to a two-tier analysis of the social and workplace experiences of women vegans. The study draws from communication research on veganism as a communicative practice a…
What makes an influencer's followers green? U-shaped curvilinear relationships between influencers' interactive practices and perceived pro-environmental behaviors
Purpose Despite green influencer marketing campaigns extensively shape followers' behaviors, they are still based on trial and error. This study seeks an effective green influencer marketing for a sustainable world. Drawing on the green advertising skepticism perspective, commitment-trust theory and stimulus-organism-response (SOR) model, the impact of influencers' interactive practices on followers' green purchase intention considering the media…
Sustainability, Sociodemographic Differences, and Consumer Behavior
Modern society is driven by consumerism, and people increasingly use their leisure time and consumption to define who they are.During leisure time, purchasing becomes the primary means of communicating values, attitudes, status, and way of life.In a consumerist culture, an individual needs a steady and growing income to keep up with mass supply and consumption.Life is transforming the cycle of earning and spending like never before, with earnings…
“I am not a typical woman. I don’t think I am a role model” – Blokishness, behavioural and leadership styles and role models
Purpose This paper presents a sociological analysis of the advertising industry's leadership styles and role models in England using masculinities in behaviour (“blokishness”) as a concept. The paper particularly focusses on the experiences of the so-called tomboy women who were socialised with boys and embraced masculine behavioural styles and compares their views and styles with women who experienced a more common, feminine socialisation and sp…
‘You really struggle not to come across as bitchy if you are trying to be authoritative’ – blokishness, habitus, behaviour and career experiences of women in public relations
Purpose This study aims to analyse the position of women in public relations (PR), using Bourdieu's habitus. The study also draws from works on women in journalism on the ‘bloke-ification’ or a situation where women have to behave like men to succeed, thus becoming one of the boys due to masculine habitus in mass communications organisations. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interviews were conducted with 26 women practitioners asking ques…
Challenges of the “New Hybrid Ecosystem”
The complex intertwining of mainstream and social media has resulted in the creation of a “new hybrid ecosystem” in which consumers are primarily engaged with ideas and news posted on social media, that are then transmitted as news in mainstream media (Wheeler 2018). In this new “hyper-connected environment” (Pepper 2018), “fake news” occupies a specific position. The concept of “fake news” is very complex, contradictory and ambivalent because it…
Media discourses on ‘race’ and gender
Women in public relations (1982–2019)
Purpose This paper aims to analyse the current literature on women in public relations to establish trends and areas of inquiry in the literature and identify research gaps for future research. Design/methodology/approach A total of 223 articles have been empirically analysed using thematic analysis to identify trends in the existing literature. The data has been coded and analysed per decade (1982–1989, 1990–1999, 2000–2009, 2010–2019). The arti…
A “party” at the border
This article is based on an eyewitness and firsthand information on the opening of Eritrea and Ethiopian border on 11 September 2018. From photographs, interviews, and observation in the towns of Senafe (Eritrea) and Zalambessa (Ethiopia), the authors intend to capture grassroots political statement and reflect retrospectively on the Ethio-Eritrean peace deal. The main objective is to capture grassroots political impression and implication of the…
Digital media vs mainstream media
Rapid advancements in new media technologies have empowered presumed inactive mass media consumers to become active content creators on digital media platforms. The overarching implication of this unprecedented opportunity on media credibility has continued to reverberate among researchers, media practitioners, and media users. This study, employing selective exposure and McLuhan's 'medium is the message' frameworks as theoretical underpinnings, …
Two Englands? Blokishness, masculine habitus and the North-South divide in the advertising industry
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the position of women in the advertising industry with the lens of organisational theory and Bourdieuian concept of habitus, to explore whether women are expected to embrace masculine characteristics to succeed and whether advertising industry can be seen as a masculine habitus. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interviews were conducted with 37 women working in the advertising industry in Eng…
The Girls at the Desk”
This paper explores the lived experiences of women working in journalism in the UK. To do this, 20 interviews were conducted with women who worked in newspapers and magazines from the 1970s to the present day. The research was conceptualised using Bourdieu’s concept of habitus and works previously conducted in journalism studies on blokish culture in newsrooms. The purpose of the paper was to further explore blokish culture in newsrooms by lookin…
The Sourcing of Stories on Sugar and the Supermarket Industry in the British Press
This paper looked at the nature of sourcing stories in the press coverage of the anti-sugar debate and the supermarket industry in the UK. The research design was a mixed-method study founded in an interpretivist epistemology. Content analysis has been conducted on 454 articles from national and regional press and this analysis provided an answer on who influences the news agenda. Qualitative interviews with journalists explored what sources jour…
Marriage and divorce law in Pre-Islamic Persia. Legal status of the Sassanid’ woman (224–651 AD)
For more than 400 years, the Sassanid Persia was the greatest state in Asia. Zoroastrianism supported by Shahanshahs had an immense influence on the legal principles of the state. The Sassanian society was Patriarchy, based on the society’s gender construction. Because the patriarchal constructions of social practices were legitimized by religion, the basic limitation of the women’s rights in the Sassanian period was the obligation to have the ma…
Evolving Responsibility or Revolving Bias? The Role of the Media in the Anti-Sugar Debate in the UK Press
This paper analyzed the coverage on the anti-sugar debate and the supermarket industry in the British press, in a period between 2014 and 2015. Using social responsibility of the press theory and a qualitative two-tier content analysis, we first conducted a documentary analysis of public relations materials (press releases and surveys published by Action on Sugar as a main anti-sugar advocate in the UK), and then we traced these public relations …
Ida’s dance club
A film by Dalit Kimor (director and producer) produced in collaboration with TelAviv University and David Katz Faculty of the arts, Department of Film and TV and The Anna Havas Scholarship fund for students in the film & television department established in memory of Michael Havas (1903-1993). In Hebrew, with English subtitles. Distributed by Ruth Deskin Distribution
Hillary Clinton and the Media
In this paper, we analysed Hillary Clinton’s relationship with the media starting from her first appointment at a US First Lady to her being the Democratic nominee for the US presidential elections in 2016. Thus, we analysed academic literature demonstrating Clinton’s problems with the media bias, and then added our own discourse analysis of articles on Clinton and feminism in two main national newspapers that have consistently demonstrated the p…
The Corporate Social Responsibility in Lidl’s Communication Campaigns in Croatia and the UK
The purpose of the paper was to investigate whether Lidl uses CSR communication in their Advertising and Communication Campaigns in two different business contexts, and if so, how. The paper built upon existing analyses of CSR Communication by analysing Lidl’s websites in both countries, and went step forward and analysed TV adverts of the company in both countries as well. The analysis discovered importance of the social context in using CSR to …
Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Imperialism
Content: Martina Topic/Cassandra Sciortino: Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Hegemony. A Framework for the Analysis - Miklos Szekely: Rebuilding History. The Political Meaning of the Hungarian Historical Pavilion at the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition - Margarita Kefalaki: Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Communication. Example of France and Corsica - Atsuko Ichijo: Cultural Diplomacy in the Contemporary United Kingdom. The Case of the British Co…
Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Imperialism
Cultural Diplomacy and International Cultural Relations, Volume I
The first volume of the Routledge book series on cultural diplomacy is a compilation of journal papers published in the International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 23, issue 6 (November 2017)
The Girls at the Desk”
This paper explores the lived experiences of women working in journalism in the UK. To do this, 20 interviews were conducted with women who worked in newspapers and magazines from the 1970s to the present day. The research was conceptualised using Bourdieu’s concept of habitus and works previously conducted in journalism studies on blokish culture in newsrooms. The purpose of the paper was to further explore blokish culture in newsrooms by lookin…
Two Englands? Blokishness, masculine habitus and the North-South divide in the advertising industry
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the position of women in the advertising industry with the lens of organisational theory and Bourdieuian concept of habitus, to explore whether women are expected to embrace masculine characteristics to succeed and whether advertising industry can be seen as a masculine habitus. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interviews were conducted with 37 women working in the advertising industry in Eng…
The Sourcing of Stories on Sugar and the Supermarket Industry in the British Press
This paper looked at the nature of sourcing stories in the press coverage of the anti-sugar debate and the supermarket industry in the UK. The research design was a mixed-method study founded in an interpretivist epistemology. Content analysis has been conducted on 454 articles from national and regional press and this analysis provided an answer on who influences the news agenda. Qualitative interviews with journalists explored what sources jour…
The Corporate Social Responsibility in Lidl’s Communication Campaigns in Croatia and the UK
The purpose of the paper was to investigate whether Lidl uses CSR communication in their Advertising and Communication Campaigns in two different business contexts, and if so, how. The paper built upon existing analyses of CSR Communication by analysing Lidl’s websites in both countries, and went step forward and analysed TV adverts of the company in both countries as well. The analysis discovered importance of the social context in using CSR to …
Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Imperialism
Content: Martina Topic/Cassandra Sciortino: Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Hegemony. A Framework for the Analysis - Miklos Szekely: Rebuilding History. The Political Meaning of the Hungarian Historical Pavilion at the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition - Margarita Kefalaki: Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Communication. Example of France and Corsica - Atsuko Ichijo: Cultural Diplomacy in the Contemporary United Kingdom. The Case of the British Co…
Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Imperialism
The Corporate Social Responsibility in Lidl’s Communication Campaigns in Croatia and the UK
The purpose of the paper was to investigate whether Lidl uses CSR communication in their Advertising and Communication Campaigns in two different business contexts, and if so, how. The paper built upon existing analyses of CSR Communication by analysing Lidl’s websites in both countries, and went step forward and analysed TV adverts of the company in both countries as well. The analysis discovered importance of the social context in using CSR to …
Ida’s dance club
A film by Dalit Kimor (director and producer) produced in collaboration with TelAviv University and David Katz Faculty of the arts, Department of Film and TV and The Anna Havas Scholarship fund for students in the film & television department established in memory of Michael Havas (1903-1993). In Hebrew, with English subtitles. Distributed by Ruth Deskin Distribution
Hillary Clinton and the Media
In this paper, we analysed Hillary Clinton’s relationship with the media starting from her first appointment at a US First Lady to her being the Democratic nominee for the US presidential elections in 2016. Thus, we analysed academic literature demonstrating Clinton’s problems with the media bias, and then added our own discourse analysis of articles on Clinton and feminism in two main national newspapers that have consistently demonstrated the p…
Evolving Responsibility or Revolving Bias? The Role of the Media in the Anti-Sugar Debate in the UK Press
This paper analyzed the coverage on the anti-sugar debate and the supermarket industry in the British press, in a period between 2014 and 2015. Using social responsibility of the press theory and a qualitative two-tier content analysis, we first conducted a documentary analysis of public relations materials (press releases and surveys published by Action on Sugar as a main anti-sugar advocate in the UK), and then we traced these public relations …
Marriage and divorce law in Pre-Islamic Persia. Legal status of the Sassanid’ woman (224–651 AD)
For more than 400 years, the Sassanid Persia was the greatest state in Asia. Zoroastrianism supported by Shahanshahs had an immense influence on the legal principles of the state. The Sassanian society was Patriarchy, based on the society’s gender construction. Because the patriarchal constructions of social practices were legitimized by religion, the basic limitation of the women’s rights in the Sassanian period was the obligation to have the ma…
Women in public relations (1982–2019)
Purpose This paper aims to analyse the current literature on women in public relations to establish trends and areas of inquiry in the literature and identify research gaps for future research. Design/methodology/approach A total of 223 articles have been empirically analysed using thematic analysis to identify trends in the existing literature. The data has been coded and analysed per decade (1982–1989, 1990–1999, 2000–2009, 2010–2019). The arti…
A “party” at the border
This article is based on an eyewitness and firsthand information on the opening of Eritrea and Ethiopian border on 11 September 2018. From photographs, interviews, and observation in the towns of Senafe (Eritrea) and Zalambessa (Ethiopia), the authors intend to capture grassroots political statement and reflect retrospectively on the Ethio-Eritrean peace deal. The main objective is to capture grassroots political impression and implication of the…
Digital media vs mainstream media
Rapid advancements in new media technologies have empowered presumed inactive mass media consumers to become active content creators on digital media platforms. The overarching implication of this unprecedented opportunity on media credibility has continued to reverberate among researchers, media practitioners, and media users. This study, employing selective exposure and McLuhan's 'medium is the message' frameworks as theoretical underpinnings, …
Two Englands? Blokishness, masculine habitus and the North-South divide in the advertising industry
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the position of women in the advertising industry with the lens of organisational theory and Bourdieuian concept of habitus, to explore whether women are expected to embrace masculine characteristics to succeed and whether advertising industry can be seen as a masculine habitus. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interviews were conducted with 37 women working in the advertising industry in Eng…
The Girls at the Desk”
This paper explores the lived experiences of women working in journalism in the UK. To do this, 20 interviews were conducted with women who worked in newspapers and magazines from the 1970s to the present day. The research was conceptualised using Bourdieu’s concept of habitus and works previously conducted in journalism studies on blokish culture in newsrooms. The purpose of the paper was to further explore blokish culture in newsrooms by lookin…
The Sourcing of Stories on Sugar and the Supermarket Industry in the British Press
This paper looked at the nature of sourcing stories in the press coverage of the anti-sugar debate and the supermarket industry in the UK. The research design was a mixed-method study founded in an interpretivist epistemology. Content analysis has been conducted on 454 articles from national and regional press and this analysis provided an answer on who influences the news agenda. Qualitative interviews with journalists explored what sources jour…
Media discourses on ‘race’ and gender
Challenges of the “New Hybrid Ecosystem”
The complex intertwining of mainstream and social media has resulted in the creation of a “new hybrid ecosystem” in which consumers are primarily engaged with ideas and news posted on social media, that are then transmitted as news in mainstream media (Wheeler 2018). In this new “hyper-connected environment” (Pepper 2018), “fake news” occupies a specific position. The concept of “fake news” is very complex, contradictory and ambivalent because it…
“I am not a typical woman. I don’t think I am a role model” – Blokishness, behavioural and leadership styles and role models
Purpose This paper presents a sociological analysis of the advertising industry's leadership styles and role models in England using masculinities in behaviour (“blokishness”) as a concept. The paper particularly focusses on the experiences of the so-called tomboy women who were socialised with boys and embraced masculine behavioural styles and compares their views and styles with women who experienced a more common, feminine socialisation and sp…
‘You really struggle not to come across as bitchy if you are trying to be authoritative’ – blokishness, habitus, behaviour and career experiences of women in public relations
Purpose This study aims to analyse the position of women in public relations (PR), using Bourdieu's habitus. The study also draws from works on women in journalism on the ‘bloke-ification’ or a situation where women have to behave like men to succeed, thus becoming one of the boys due to masculine habitus in mass communications organisations. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interviews were conducted with 26 women practitioners asking ques…
Cultural Diplomacy and International Cultural Relations, Volume I
The first volume of the Routledge book series on cultural diplomacy is a compilation of journal papers published in the International Journal of Cultural Policy, volume 23, issue 6 (November 2017)
Sustainability, Sociodemographic Differences, and Consumer Behavior
Modern society is driven by consumerism, and people increasingly use their leisure time and consumption to define who they are.During leisure time, purchasing becomes the primary means of communicating values, attitudes, status, and way of life.In a consumerist culture, an individual needs a steady and growing income to keep up with mass supply and consumption.Life is transforming the cycle of earning and spending like never before, with earnings…
“ … Like Confrontational About It, which I didn’t Expect” —An Analysis of Conversational Experiences of Women Vegans When Dining with Colleagues
This study is based on 28 interviews with women vegans based in England, UK. The study aimed to explore the everyday experiences and cultural capital of women vegans; however, interviewing revealed a large focus on the workplace culture as a place of exclusion, expanding the research to a two-tier analysis of the social and workplace experiences of women vegans. The study draws from communication research on veganism as a communicative practice a…
What makes an influencer's followers green? U-shaped curvilinear relationships between influencers' interactive practices and perceived pro-environmental behaviors
Purpose Despite green influencer marketing campaigns extensively shape followers' behaviors, they are still based on trial and error. This study seeks an effective green influencer marketing for a sustainable world. Drawing on the green advertising skepticism perspective, commitment-trust theory and stimulus-organism-response (SOR) model, the impact of influencers' interactive practices on followers' green purchase intention considering the media…
“Vanilla” workplace culture
Purpose Everyday workplace dining conversations function as a form of informal organizational communication within the US public relations industry. Drawing on Bourdieu's concepts of cultural capital, habitus, and taste, the study explores how conversational norms enacted during shared meals shape professional belonging, civility, and interactional boundaries in contemporary communication workplaces. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured qu…
Job satisfaction and career adaptability through the lenses of Bourdieu’s theory of practice and theory of elites
Purpose This study examines the social and cultural capital of mass communication practitioners using Bourdieu’s theory of practice and the theory of elites. It focuses specifically on US Hispanic and non-Hispanic practitioners to understand their experiences in the workplace and social and cultural capital as it relates to job satisfaction and career adaptability. Design/methodology/approach A total of 349 respondents completed a survey online t…
Women, masculinities and workplace culture in small and medium-size businesses in the Leeds City Region
Purpose This paper explored the workplace culture in small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in the Leeds City Region. The paper looked at perceived leadership expectations vs self-assessment of leadership characteristics and mindsets, as well as workplace culture respective to hierarchy and organisational supportiveness of SMEs as workplaces. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-methods approach was deployed, consisting of a survey with SMEs and…
“Have You Tried Amish Pie?”—Food, Inclusivity and Intercultural Communication in Public Relations Workplaces in the US
Drawing on the three dimensions of social capital (bonding, bridging, and linking), this study examines how food sharing in the workplace facilitates intercultural engagement among employees from diverse cultural backgrounds. Based on interviews with public relations practitioners representing a range of ages, positions, and levels of professional experience, the findings indicate that food inclusivity fosters workplace relationships, supports th…
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