Communication Studies, Public Relations, Journalism

I am defending my master’s thesis in communication studies in December 2007 at the University of Northern Iowa. My academic advisor is Dr. Dean Kruckeberg. My thesis is on the significance of the general public in a public relations context.

My interests include critical examination of public relations as a field, as well as application of computer science to research in mass communication.

[This page is under construction. It should be completed by December 7, 2007]

These are links to some of the research papers I wrote for my public relations classes: (all in pdf format)

• Promoting the 2000 PRSSA national conference: integrated communications campaign
  Seminar in Public Relations: Integrated Communications, December 2001
• National product launch campaign for Bayer Women's
  Graduate Internship, August, 2001
• A study of the DailmlerChrysler merger portrayal in U.S. and European media
  Project in Communication Studies, December 2000
• A study of the emergence of public relations in the Russian Federation
  Global public relations, December 2000
• How corporations use their web sites to target their main audiences
  Seminar in public relations: contemporary practice and issues, April, 2000

I also wrote this article which was published in the 8^th edition of This is PR, which is a public relations textbook:

• Using a Web Site as a Campaign Communication Tool

Journalism and Public Relations in Russia
My undergraduate degree was in Journalism and Public Relations from St. Petersburg State University in Russia. My academic advisor was Dr. Olga Tulsanova. For my undergraduate thesis, I examined several hundred public relations case studies, involving any kind of special events. Based on the results of the study, I developed a typology of events in public relations.