In connection to this study’s research, this study will look closer into Schriner’s (2008) research to find a better understanding of the impact that public role models’ have on society. Moreover, we will investigate the influence, interaction, and trust that public role models possess at the social, cultural, and political level in order to analyses the question: does the public have a right to know public figure’s private lives? Influence A major position of Schriner’s (2008) research, “The Public Role Model In Public Relations: An Integrated Approach to Understanding Personal Influence in the Public Arena”, centers on the personal influence that public role models have on social networks and vice versa. This research suggest that public
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Since US “media” developed, started with mass newspapers, people have dropped substance out of their leadership decisions. Entertainment and superficiality abound . Who’ is doing ‘what’ has become the most important factor.
Therefore, public role models will display their desirable personal attributes to the public by exposing their personal information their media networks. From these tactics these public role models gain public support by sharing society’s socially accepted norms and forming to political and personal values depending on cultural acceptance.
Interacting with the Public According to research, “the rules of interaction are dependent on the situation,” (the interaction of public role models with the public) “depending on various factors, such as culture, political climate, professional roles and social statues of the interacting individuals,” (Schriner, 2008; p. 4). Similar to the information regarding influence, public role models will shape to cultural norms and present certain values based on the environment in which they are in. For example, Marilyn Geller, a participant in Ringham’s (2009) MPR question responded to the subject of interacting with the public in this way: “People generally have two faces; the one they wear when they need to be professional and the one they wear when they are with friends and …show more content…
Nevertheless, Aristotle argued that all individuals are responsible for being role model; especially those in the public arena (Lawhead, 2001). This being said, ordinary citizen role models can separate their professional and personal “face” to the public; however, public role models are in the spot light even when they do not want it. This brings up the subject of public role models responsibility to be trustworthy since public role models are held at a higher standard Trust Schriner’s (2008) discusses the inconsistent findings in literature connected to the importance of trust and knowledge concerning public role models in both the areas of having “trust rather than expertise, and vice versa,” (Schriner, 2008). Such research has found a strong association to the variables trust and knowledge; in which both variables are psychologically and socially influential to the public; however, researcher has found that both are redundant in their
Since US “media” developed, started with mass newspapers, people have dropped substance out of their leadership decisions. Entertainment and superficiality abound . Who’ is doing ‘what’ has become the most important factor.
Therefore, public role models will display their desirable personal attributes to the public by exposing their personal information their media networks. From these tactics these public role models gain public support by sharing society’s socially accepted norms and forming to political and personal values depending on cultural acceptance.
Interacting with the Public According to research, “the rules of interaction are dependent on the situation,” (the interaction of public role models with the public) “depending on various factors, such as culture, political climate, professional roles and social statues of the interacting individuals,” (Schriner, 2008; p. 4). Similar to the information regarding influence, public role models will shape to cultural norms and present certain values based on the environment in which they are in. For example, Marilyn Geller, a participant in Ringham’s (2009) MPR question responded to the subject of interacting with the public in this way: “People generally have two faces; the one they wear when they need to be professional and the one they wear when they are with friends and …show more content…
Nevertheless, Aristotle argued that all individuals are responsible for being role model; especially those in the public arena (Lawhead, 2001). This being said, ordinary citizen role models can separate their professional and personal “face” to the public; however, public role models are in the spot light even when they do not want it. This brings up the subject of public role models responsibility to be trustworthy since public role models are held at a higher standard Trust Schriner’s (2008) discusses the inconsistent findings in literature connected to the importance of trust and knowledge concerning public role models in both the areas of having “trust rather than expertise, and vice versa,” (Schriner, 2008). Such research has found a strong association to the variables trust and knowledge; in which both variables are psychologically and socially influential to the public; however, researcher has found that both are redundant in their