PB2A Parts 3-5

As I dug deeper into my research about the impact of social media on public relations, I found myself asking so many questions. Three of those questions I would like to focus in on are...
1. How has the usage of social media impacted the world of Public Relations?
2. Which of the mainstream social media applications is most connected to Public Relations and why?
3. Why is there a need for a connection between people through the usage of social media?
4. What applications has allowed for the most expression of one's self according to the principles of Public Relations?
5. How has Public Relations evolved and what will this industry look like in 15 years?
The more I keep looking into this topic more in depth, some of the disciplinary keywords I have used when researching include...
1. Social Media
2. Public Relations
3. Self-Expression
4. Entertainment Industry
5. Personality
6. Instagram
7. Facebook
8. Influencer
9. Snapchat
10. Media Management
11. Connections
The key articles I have found to help support my research are as follows... (APA Style from JSTOR)
1. Miller, D., Costa, E., Haynes, N., McDonald, T., Nicolescu, R., Sinanan, J., . . . Wang, X. (2016). What is social media? In How the World Changed Social Media (pp. 1-8). London: UCL Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1g69z35.8
2. GUSTAFSON, R. (1986). THE STRUCTURE OF THE AMERICAN MASS ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY. Journal of Film and Video, 38(1), 5-6. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20687699
3. Cohen, S., Dengate, J., Morrell, L., & Lee, K. (2015). THE MEDIA AND PROTECTED AREAS. In Worboys G., Lockwood M., Kothari A., Feary S., & Pulsford I. (Eds.), Protected Area Governance and Management (pp. 441-472). ANU Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1657v5d.22
4. Contractor, N., & DeChurch, L. (2014). Integrating social networks and human social motives to achieve social influence at scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, 13650-13657. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/43043104
5. Miller, D. (2016). Crafting the look. In Social Media in an English Village (pp. 45-91). London: UCL Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1g69xs1.7
Another site to keep in mind when researching this topic is SAGE Journals.