‘Punks in Vegas’: Punk rock and image repair

Kristiansen, Lars J.

doi:10.1386/punk_00016_1

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“…Researchers should consider expanding on this study by drawing on the same framework to examine how image repair strategies are employed by organisation coming out of a crisis. Image repair as part of impression management is an area that continues to draw a great deal of research interest (Benoit, 2018; Kristiansen, 2020; Tabak and Avraham, 2018). However, no studies to date have examined impression management through dialogic communication.…”

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Utilising dialogic corporate web communication: the case of reputational risk management at Tabung Haji

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Arshad

Muda

2020

Media International Australia

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Advances in digital technology enable organisations to engage in two-way, dialogic communication for improved connectivity with stakeholders. However, the willingness of organisations to leverage on such forms of communication is questionable, particularly in relation to communicating about a crisis. In this article, we examine the corporate web communication practices of Tabung Haji, a corporation plagued by allegations of financial mismanagement. Drawing on a framework for assessing effective corporate communication, we examined the corporate web disclosure practices of the organisation as manifested in its website and Facebook page. While there was evidence of opportunities for dialogic communication with stakeholders, the analysis revealed that efficient communication was compromised because the organisation continued to practice strategic silencing and selective disclosure of information. As such, relational connectivity was weak, and there appeared to be a reluctance to leverage on text-external features offered by web communication to mitigate reputational risk.

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Utilising dialogic corporate web communication: the case of reputational risk management at Tabung Haji

Nair

Arshad

Muda

2020

Media International Australia

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‘Punks in Vegas’: Punk rock and image repair

Kristiansen

2020

Punk &Amp; Post-Punk

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At their 2018 headlining appearance at the annual Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival in downtown Las Vegas, NV, California skate punk stalwarts NOFX generated widespread controversy after band members quipped about the mass shooting that occurred eight months prior during the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival in neighbouring Paradise, NV. After days of censorious media coverage, which prompted Stone Brewing to summarily terminate the band’s sponsorship contract in a widely circulated news release, the band issued a statement in which members collectively expressed remorse and apologized for the offending comments. Four decades of punk history notwithstanding, NOFX’s decision to apologize and offer mea culpas is something of a unicum. Punks, after all, are not typically in the business of extending olive branches or tendering requests for forgiveness. Accordingly, punk apologia is an understudied and undertheorized area of research. Utilizing Benoit’s Theory of Image Repair, this article adds to the limited stock of available research by critically evaluating the apologetic discourse following NOFX’s comments in Las Vegas through a systematic examination of the band’s letter of apology as well as audiences’ responses to that statement.

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Just a noisy hall, where there’s a nightly brawl, and all that punk: The problematic union of craft beer and punk

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2022

Punk &Amp; Post-Punk

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It has been claimed that craft beer and punk are bedfellows. There are large numbers of Millennials among drinkers of craft beer and fans of punk, and each can play a significant role in drinkers’ and fans’ identities. Communities are built around the appreciation of each, and precision is important. Subtle distinctions between different craft beers are magnified to craft beer drinkers; subtle differences in sound between different punk bands are magnified to committed punk fans. Obscure craft beers manufactured in low numbers reflect the limited run of 100 units of an album pressed on vinyl by an obscure punk band. These similarities have not gone unnoticed by craft breweries or punk bands. Scottish brewery BrewDog uses the word ‘punk’ in its products and literature; US brewery Stone Brewing partnered with US punk band NOFX to produce a NOFX-branded craft beer. However, both breweries have suffered as a consequence. This article reflects on both breweries’ appropriation of punk and considers factors that contributed to problems that they subsequently encountered. In both cases, though in different ways, conceptions of punk that are lazy, platitudinous or both have contributed towards the issues suffered.

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‘Punks in Vegas’: Punk rock and image repair

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References 29 publications

Utilising dialogic corporate web communication: the case of reputational risk management at Tabung Haji

Utilising dialogic corporate web communication: the case of reputational risk management at Tabung Haji

‘Punks in Vegas’: Punk rock and image repair

Just a noisy hall, where there’s a nightly brawl, and all that punk: The problematic union of craft beer and punk

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