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Kate Fitch

@katefitch.bsky.social
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academic researching comms, history, gender & social justice

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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
can’t wait for this #FirstNations approaches to PR special issue of @prinquiry.bsky.social to be published - deadline for papers is Jan 2026
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
new research from CK (Kay) Weaver & Franzisca Weder shows professional communicators are claiming narrative agency in sustainability & change contexts, focusing on ethics in the act of storytelling and dialogicality [open access] journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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IAMCR @iamcr.org · 25/06/2025
🌐✨ Meet the winners of IAMCR’s 2025 Decolonising the Digital Awards! From Indigenous language activism to feminist AI, these groundbreaking projects reimagine technology from the margins. 👉 Read more: iamcr.org/awards/decol... #IAMCR2025 #DecoloniseTheDigital #DigitalJustice
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
colours of Little India #IAMCR2025 Singapore 🇸🇬
vibrantly coloured heritage villa door colourful heritage mural of Little India showing old shops and thali platethali plate - rice & 7 curries - plus mango lassi
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
heading to #IAMCR2025 and looking forward to catching up with colleagues 😊 ✈️
poster with head shot of Kate Fitch and text on IAMCR presentation on Thursday
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
This AGL 1979 TV ad featuring contemporary dance led Belinda Smaill and I to investigate the promotion of ‘natural gas’ and the ways media & promotional industries shape understandings of energy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rb2...
Contemporary dancers in tight blue costumes enact the flames of a giant gas stove.
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
#PR scholars heading to #IAMCR25 - our journal editor @katefitch.bsky.social will be in Singapore so reach out if you would like to chat. We welcome critical, interpretative & interdisciplinary contributions on PR & society.
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
‘The Living Flame’ 🔥 by @katefitch.bsky.social & Belinda Smaill investigates the impact of promotional industries on environmental justice by analysing the promotion of ‘natural’ gas journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The Living Flame: Energy, promotion and ‘natural’ gas in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s - Kate Fitch, Belinda Smaill, 2025
For most of the 20th century, energy transformations were promoted, and legitimated through diverse media and promotion. Much of this ‘energy media’ was generat...
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
This AGL 1979 TV ad featuring contemporary dance led Belinda Smaill and I to investigate the promotion of ‘natural gas’ and the ways media & promotional industries shape understandings of energy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rb2...
Contemporary dancers in tight blue costumes enact the flames of a giant gas stove.
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
"The gas industry knows fossil fuels are not renewable, but it continues to try and hoodwink Australians into thinking gas is good for us.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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AGN accused of running dodgy 'Love Gas' ads that deceived viewers
Australian Gas Networks has been accused of misleading "millions" of Australians through their "Love Gas" ads.
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Editorial: ‘ PR & Social Justice: Interdisciplinary Reflections & Future Directions on the Impact of PR & Promotional Communication on Human Rights & Social Inequalities’ by E.Ciszek, Lee Edwards @katefitch.bsky.social & Jenny Hou journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Public relations and social justice - E Ciszek, Lee Edwards, Kate Fitch, Jenny Hou, 2025
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Jo Fawkes @beznarjo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Delighted to have last ever academic essay published in @prinquiry.bsky.social. On PR, culture and climate collapse. Thanks to @katefitch.bsky.social and all who made it possible
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#PR scholars heading to #ICA25 - our journal editor @kristindemetrious.bsky.social is attending the #criticalPR pre-conference as well as the big event if you’d like to chat
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
congrats @beznarjo.bsky.social - I’m proud to publish this provocative essay on PR, Deep Adaptation and the climate emergency
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I had the best time researching this paper on wine, women and PR 🍷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Wine, women and PR: Phyllis Parkinson and the wine recipe service in Australia, 1952–1979
This paper aims to investigate the Australian Wine Board’s promotion of wine consumption to women in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s in order to understand the promotional work conducted by women for wo...
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Phyllis Parkinson helped develop an Australian wine market through media relations & the distribution of wine recipes 🍷 making wine drinking acceptable for Anglo Australians & women (but her contributions are absent from both PR & wine history) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Wine, women and PR: Phyllis Parkinson and the wine recipe service in Australia, 1952–1979
This paper aims to investigate the Australian Wine Board’s promotion of wine consumption to women in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s in order to understand the promotional work conducted by women for wo...
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I had the best time researching this paper on wine, women and PR 🍷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Wine, women and PR: Phyllis Parkinson and the wine recipe service in Australia, 1952–1979
This paper aims to investigate the Australian Wine Board’s promotion of wine consumption to women in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s in order to understand the promotional work conducted by women for wo...
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
new autoethnographic research with reflections on anti-racism and social justice in the PR classroom by Luke Capizzo, @adriwall.bsky.social Nneka Logan & @katieplace.bsky.social 👏 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Accomplices in the public relations classroom: An autoethnography of social-justice and anti-racism-informed teaching - Luke Capizzo, Adrienne Wallace, Nneka Logan, Katie Place, 2025
A holistic approach to anti-racism and social justice in the public relations classroom requires moving beyond mere allyship with underrepresented students and ...
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History Council of Victoria @historycouncilvic.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
➡️ You can read work on the topic by Dr Downing, honorary lecturer at Australian National University in this 2023 article in History Australia, 'A glass ceiling smashed? Reflecting on gender equity in the discipline of history' (log in required): 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A glass ceiling smashed? Reflecting on gender equity in the discipline of history
Women hold between 40 and 50 per cent of all academic appointments in the discipline of history in Australia. Even among the social science disciplines, which are seen as more welcoming to women th...
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
the May 2025 editorial is online @alenkajelen.bsky.social @kristindemetrious.bsky.social & I call on PR scholars to be ‘troublemakers’
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
so pleased that we have published this important paper on PR education in @prinquiry.bsky.social
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
PR scholars should lead students through anti-racist, emancipatory, and critical advocacy work to prepare them to be ethical and social justice-minded PR professionals #justpublished journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Accomplices in the public relations classroom: An autoethnography of social-justice and anti-racism-informed teaching - Luke Capizzo, Adrienne Wallace, Nneka Logan, Katie Place, 2025
A holistic approach to anti-racism and social justice in the public relations classroom requires moving beyond mere allyship with underrepresented students and ...
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Sarah A. Aghazadeh @saaghazadeh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I’m absolutely honored to receive the inaugural L’Etang-Pieczka Award for outstanding research! Thank you to the editors and reviewers at @prinquiry.bsky.social for making this opportunity possible! I look forward to seeing this award evolve and grow critical PR scholarship for years to come.
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History Council of Victoria @historycouncilvic.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🏢 In the 1970s feminists identified a less-visible form of discrimination — the ‘glass ceiling’. On Thursday we kick off our FREE webinar series with three excellent panelists: Karen Downing, Claire Wright & @katefitch.bsky.social. ✍ Register: www.historycouncilvic.org.au/mph_mar_2025...
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Sarah A. Aghazadeh @saaghazadeh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Thank you @katefitch.bsky.social! It is an incredible honor to receive this award.
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Congratulations Sarah Aghazadeh as the inaugural winner of the L’Etang-Pieczka Award. Your interdisciplinary paper is a worthy winner, tackling taboos around pregnancy loss and offering new directions in PR scholarship. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Congratulations to the inaugural winner of the L’Etang-Pieczka Award: Sarah A. Aghazadeh @saaghazadeh.bsky.social Don’t say “the D word”: Exploring death taboo and biopower in pregnancy loss awareness advocacy 👏 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
congratulations @saaghazadeh.bsky.social 🙌
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History Council of Victoria @historycouncilvic.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
💡The glass ceiling: is it shattered, cracked, or stubbornly intact? We will be exploring this question in our first Making Public Histories webinar of 2025 one week from today - featuring historians Dr Karen Downing, Dr @katefitch.bsky.social, & Dr Claire Wright, with time for audience Q&A!
Kate Fitch, Karen Downing and Claire Wright
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
👏 shortlisted for the inaugural L’Etang-Pieczka Award 👏 Naíde Müller: ‘Challenge or resist dominant discourses: Authenticity as a strategic component of activist public relations’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Challenge or resist dominant discourses: Authenticity as a strategic component of activist public relations - Naíde Müller, 2024
Although there is evidence that perceived authenticity has a positive impact on corporate reputation, the implications of authenticity in activist communication...
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
👏 shortlisted for the inaugural L’Etang-Pieczka Award 👏 Derek Moscato: ‘All the city’s a stage: Greenpeace, #VWDarkside, and the popular appeals of urban climate activism’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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All the city’s a stage: Greenpeace, #VWDarkside, and the popular appeals of urban climate activism - Derek Moscato, 2024
Through the lens of Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic pentad, this study examines the role of the city as a consequential forum for environmental activists—providing ...
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Lauren Rosewarne @laurenrosewarne.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
"when a simple little jacket warms you and charms you and keeps its shape day in and day out you'll be glad you insisted on pure new wool" (x.com/LaurenRosewa...) Pure New Wool "naturally". New Idea, 1966.
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
👏 shortlisted for in the inaugural L’Etang-Pieczka Award 👏 Elin Helgesson’s investigation of public affairs and lobbyists ‘Folk devils and moral vigilantes – The occupational branding of public affairs consultants and the management of stigma‘ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Folk devils and moral vigilantes – The occupational branding of public affairs consultants and the management of stigma - Elin Helgesson, 2024
Public affairs is a rising field of practise; at the same time, it is reputationally complicated. In view of the widespread concern about the impact of its prac...
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🙌 shortlisted for the inaugural L’Etang-Piezcka Award 🙌 Sarah A Aghazadeh’s article, ‘Don’t say the D-word’ explores pregnancy loss through a sociocultural perspective of PR, drawing on interviews with 17 advocates & activists journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
we’re announcing the inaugural winner of the L’Etang-Pieczka Award next week on Friday 21 March 👏
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a black and white photo of a dog playing a drum with the words `` drum roll please '' .
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
looking forward to talking about PR, gender & history on this webinar on ‘the glass ceiling’ with Karen Downing and Claire EF Wright - it’s free to join us on 27/3 @ 5pm AEST
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’m speaking at this @historycouncilvic.bsky.social webinar- The Glass Ceiling: Shattered, cracked or Stubbornly Intact - on 27 March, 5pm AEST www.historycouncilvic.org.au/mph_mar_2025...
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The Glass Ceiling
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Sandra Boone @boonesk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
If you're open to including grad students, I would love to be included. I'm a 3rd-year student @uosojc.bsky.social examining equity/power concerns for PR professionals with a focus on the power in/of language.
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
more #EnergyPR greenwash from the Oz gas industry and #NewsCorp amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How can News Corp call its gas splash an ‘exclusive’ and a ‘special report’ when it’s paid for by industry? | News Corporation | The Guardian
Readers led to believe a short-on-facts advertorial exhorting government to let companies extract more gas is straight news coverage
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Katharina Esau @kathaesa.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
How does #polarisation manifest in media & communication at breaking points? Our new article identifies 5 key symptoms of destructive polarisation🔓: rb.gy/fp5akv @icsjournal.bsky.social T. Choucair, @vilkins.bsky.social , @svegaard.bsky.social, @snurb.bsky.social, C. Lubicz, K. O'Connor Farfan
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
really pleased to announce this new award for#criticalPR scholarship - congrats to the finalists
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
love it that people are sharing pet pics so here’s mine 🐕
golden, mixed breed, large dog sits next to owner
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Public Relations Inquiry @prinquiry.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
exciting news! we have launched the L’Etang-Pieczka Award to recognise innovative, critical, creative and boundary-pushing public relations scholarship journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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L’Etang-Pieczka award outstanding PRI paper of the year: 2024 shortlist - Kristin Demetrious, Kate Fitch, Alenka Jelen, 2024
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
my weekend reading is sorted 🤩 can’t wait to read your new book on the Australian Women’s Weekly & Oz food culture @clemloz.bsky.social publishing.monash.edu/product/a-ma...
book cover shows a retro image of a woman holding a book in a kitchen with the words A Matter of Taste
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Scott Davidson @scottify.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Nice #criticalPR starter pack created by @katefitch.bsky.social
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Kate Fitch @katefitch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
new to Bluesky so it might be ambitious to create a #CriticalPR starter pack (thanks @ckayweaver.bsky.social for suggesting it) - please share with your networks and I’ll keep adding to it
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