Edwards, Lee

Number of items: 98.
2025
  • Edwards, Lee (19 December 2025) Violence and silence what can organisations do to tackle antisemitism? Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee (17 November 2025) The UK’s Curriculum and Assessment Review an opportunity for media literacy? Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee, Moss, Giles (11 November 2025) An opportunity born of a media storm?: bringing the public's voice into the debate about the BBC’s future. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Kurian, Priya, Munshi, Debashish, Edwards, Lee (2025). Reimagining “public” outreach on environmental issues: interrogating the hegemonic foundations of public engagement/participation/relations. Environmental Communication, https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2025.2571946 picture_as_pdf
  • Ciszek, E., Edwards, Lee, Fitch, Kate, Hou, Jenny (2025). Public relations and social justice. Public Relations Inquiry, 14(3), 253 - 256. https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147X251353669
  • Edwards, Lee, Somerville, Ian (2025). Public relations in deeply divided societies: challenges of social inclusion, deliberative democracy, and inequality. Public Relations Inquiry, 14(3), 257 - 264. https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147X251352217 picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick, Edwards, Lee, Livingstone, Sonia, Stoilova, Mariya (2025). The potential for media literacy to combat misinformation: results of a rapid evidence assessment. International Journal of Communication, 19, 2129 – 2151. picture_as_pdf
  • Anstead, Nick, Edwards, Lee, Livingstone, Sonia, Stoilova, Mariya (22 May 2025) Is media literacy an effective tool against misinformation? Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee, Obia, Vincent, Goodman, Emma, Spasenoska, Sofija (2025). Cross-sectoral challenges to media literacy: case studies. LSE Consulting. picture_as_pdf
    • 2024
  • Edwards, Lee, Bourne, Clea, Cabañes, Jason Vincent A., Castro, Gisela (2024). Editors' introduction what is promotional culture today? In Edwards, L., Bourne, C., Cabañes, J. V. A. & Castro, G. (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Promotional Culture and Society (pp. xxii - xxxiv). Sage Publications Ltd..
  • Edwards, Lee (2024). Explaining promotional culture: an institutional logics approach. In Edwards, L., Bourne, C., Cabañes, J. V. A. & Castro, G. (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Promotional Culture and Society (pp. 45 - 48). Sage Publications Ltd.. picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee, Bourne, Clea, Cabañes, Jason Vincent A., Castro, Gisela (Eds.) (2024). The Sage handbook of promotional culture and society. Sage Publications Ltd..
  • Livingstone, Sonia, Edwards, Lee, Goodman, Emma (12 December 2024) Poacher turned gamekeeper? What is Google's role in improving its users' media literacy? Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee, Livingstone, Sonia, Goodman, Emma (3 December 2024) Putting media literacy on the map: opportunities and challenges in Europe. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee (2024). Trust, truth and ‘organized lying’: a critical study of the Edelman Trust Barometer. In Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry (pp. 303-319). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003256878-22 picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee (3 July 2024) Politics and power in election campaign coverage are we missing something? Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Moss, Giles, Edwards, Lee (2024). Public deliberation and the justification of public service media. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 31(3), 322 - 337. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2024.2342277 picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee, Aulakh, Sundeep (2024). Public relations recruitment as boundary-making: the client, the ‘fit’ and the disposability of diversity. Public Relations Inquiry, 13(1), 93 - 112. https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147X231210277 picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee, Moss, Giles (2024). Rapid evidence analysis of diversity in UK public service television what do we know and what should we find out? Journal of British Cinema and Television, 21(1), 1 - 28. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2024.0697 picture_as_pdf
    • 2023
  • Edwards, Lee (20 December 2023) Reflecting on media coverage of the war in Israel and Gaza. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee, Obia, Vincent, Goodman, Emma, Spasenoska, Sofija (2023). Cross-sectoral challenges to media literacy: final report. (DSIT Research paper series 2023/032). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee (3 July 2023) Provocations on the future of promotional industries and scholarship. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Jiménez-Martínez, César, Edwards, Lee (2023). The promotional regime of visibility: ambivalence and contradiction in strategies of dominance and resistance. Communication and the Public, 8(1), 14 - 28. https://doi.org/10.1177/20570473221146661 picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee (2023). I’m a PR person. Let’s just deal with it. Managing intersectionality in professional life. Public Relations Review, 12(1), 27 - 51. https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147X221089323 picture_as_pdf
  • Das, Arindam, Roy Chaudhuri, Himadri, Edwards, Lee (2023). Communication in global crises: critical discourses on consumption, culture, power, and resistance. Consumption Markets and Culture, 26(3), 175 - 180. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2023.2221178 picture_as_pdf
    • 2022
  • Bourne, Clea, Mumby, Dennis, Munshi, Debashish, Das, Arindam, Roy Chaudhuri, Himadri, Edwards, Lee (2022). Narrating the anxious market: in search of alternatives during global crises. Consumption Markets and Culture, https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2022.2066656 picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee, Moss, Giles (2022). Democratising media policymaking: a stakeholder-centric, systemic approach to copyright consultation. Media, Culture & Society, 44(3), 514 - 531. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437211048376 picture_as_pdf
  • Cronin, Anne M, Edwards, Lee (2022). Resituating the political in cultural intermediary work: charity sector public relations and communication. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(1), 148 - 165. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549421994239 picture_as_pdf
    • 2021
  • Mcdougall, Julian, Edwards, Lee, Fowler-watt, Karen (2021). Media literacy in the time of Covid. Sociologia della Comunicazione, 62(2), 50 - 68. https://doi.org/10.3280/SC2021-062004 picture_as_pdf
  • Place, Katie R., Edwards, Lee, Bowen, Shannon A. (2021). Dignity and respect or homocommodification? Applying moral philosophy to LGBTQ public relations. Public Relations Review, 47(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2021.102085
  • Somerville, Ian, Edwards, Lee (2021). Researching the complex, hybrid, and liminal nature of contemporary promotional cultures. Media and Communication, 9(3), 97 - 100. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i3.4539 picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee, Stoilova, Mariya, Anstead, Nick, Fry, Andra, El-Halaby, Gail, Smith, Matthew (2021). Rapid evidence assessment on online misinformation and media literacy: final report for Ofcom. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • 2020
  • Edwards, Lee (2020). Organised lying and professional legitimacy: public relations’ accountability in the disinformation debate. European Journal of Communication, 0(0), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323120966851 picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee (2020). Transparency, publicity, democracy and markets: inhabiting tensions through hybridity. American Behavioral Scientist, 64(11), 1545-1564. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764220945350 picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee, Philip, Fiona, Gerrard, Ysabel (2020). Communicating feminist politics? The double-edged sword of using social media in a feminist organisation. Feminist Media Studies, 20(5), 605 - 622. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1599036 picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee, Moss, Giles (2020). Improving deliberation, improving copyright: outcomes and recommendations. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • 2019
  • Fredriksson, Magnus, Edwards, Lee (2019). Communicating under the regimes of divergent ideas: how public agencies in Sweden manage tensions between transparency and consistency. Management Communication Quarterly, 33(4), 548-580. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318919859478 picture_as_pdf
    • 2018
  • Edwards, Lee, Moss, Giles (2018). Evaluating justifications of copyright: an exercise in public engagement. Information, Communication and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1534984 picture_as_pdf
  • Edwards, Lee (2018). Cambridge Analytica and the deeper malaise in the persuasion industry.
  • Edwards, Lee (2018). Understanding public relations: theory, culture and society. SAGE Publications.
    • 2017
  • Edwards, Lee, Moss, Giles, Karvelyte, Kristina (2017). Living with(in) copyright law: what is it, how does it work, how could it change? (Working Paper 27/10). CREATe.
  • Edwards, Lee (2017). Copyright: a systemic marketplace icon. Consumption Markets and Culture, https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2017.1372925
  • Edwards, Lee (2017). Consistency and inconsistency in organizations. Management Communication Quarterly, 31(3), 486-491. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318917700295
  • Edwards, Lee, Fredriksson, Magnus (2017). Forum: inconsistency and communication in organizations. Management Communication Quarterly, 31(3), 467-472. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318917699886
  • Edwards, Lee, Ramamurthy, Anandi (2017). (In)credible India? A critical analysis of India's nation branding. Communication, Culture & Critique, 10(2), 322-343. https://doi.org/10.1111/cccr.12152
  • Edwards, Lee (2017). Public relations, voice and recognition: a case study. Media, Culture and Society, 016344371770500. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443717705000
  • Edwards, Lee (2017). Why strategic communications matters and how to study it.
    • 2016
  • Edwards, Lee, Klein, Bethany, Lee, David, Moss, Giles, Philip, Fiona (2016). Communicating copyright: discourse and disagreement in the digital age. In David, M. & Halbert, D. (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Intellectual Property . SAGE Publications.
  • Edwards, Lee (2016). The role of public relations in deliberative systems. Journal of Communication, 66(1), 60 - 81. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12199
  • McKenna, Gemma, Edwards, Lee (2016). Giving social action a voice: reframing communication as social action. (Working Papers Vol. 7). Communities & Culture Network.
  • Edwards, Lee (2016). An historical overview of the emergence of critical thinking in PR. In L'Etang, J., McKie, D., Snow, N. & Xifra, J. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Public Relations (pp. 16-27). Routledge.
    • 2015
  • Heath, Robert L., Coombs, W. Timothy, Edwards, Lee, Palenchar, Michael J., McKie, David (2015). Shaping the field: Bob Heath and the two volumes of the Encyclopedia of Public Relations. Public Relations Review, 41(5), 703-713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2013.11.024
  • Edwards, Lee (2015). Interrogating the complexities of digital communication for young people engaged in social action. (Working Papers Vol. 6). Communities & Culture Network.
  • Edwards, Lee, Klein, Bethany, Lee, David, Moss, Giles, Philip, Fiona (2015). Isn’t it just a way to protect Walt Disney’s rights?: Media user perspectives on copyright. New Media & Society, 17(5), 691-707. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444813511402
  • Edwards, Lee (2015). Power, diversity and public relations. Routledge.
  • Klein, Bethany, Moss, Giles, Edwards, Lee (2015). Understanding copyright: intellectual property in the digital age. SAGE Publications.
  • Edwards, Lee (2015). Understanding public relations as a cultural industry. In Oakley, K. & O'Connor, J. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries . Routledge.
    • 2014
  • Mynster, Andreas S., Edwards, Lee (2014). Building blocks of individual biography? Non-governmental organizational communication in reflexive modernity. Management Communication Quarterly, 28(3), 319-346. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318914530673
  • Edwards, Lee (2014). Discourse, credentialism and occupational closure in the communications industries: The case of public relations in the UK. European Journal of Communication, 29(3), 319-334. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323113519228
  • Edwards, Lee, Klein, Bethany, Lee, David, Moss, Giles, Philip, Fiona (2014). Discourse, justification and critique: towards a legitimate digital copyright regime? International Journal of Cultural Policy, 21(1), 60-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2013.874421
    • 2013
  • Edwards, Lee (2013). Public relations theories: an overview. In Tench, R. & Yeomans, L. (Eds.), Exploring Public Relations (pp. 123-144). Pearson Education, Inc..
  • Edwards, Lee (2013). Public relations origins: definitions and history. In Tench, R. & Yeomans, L. (Eds.), Exploring Public Relations (3rd Edition) (pp. 3-20). Pearson Education, Inc..
  • Edwards, Lee (2013). Institutional racism in cultural production: the case of public relations. Popular Communication, 11(3), 242-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2013.810084
  • Edwards, Lee, Pieczka, Magda (2013). Public relations and ‘its’ media: exploring the role of trade media in the enactment of public relations’ professional project. Public Relations Inquiry, 2(1), 5-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147X12464204
  • Edwards, Lee, Klein, Bethany, Lee, David, Moss, Giles, Philip, Fiona (2013). Framing the consumer: copyright regulation and the public. Convergence: International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 19(1), 9-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856512456788
  • Edwards, Lee (2013). Bourdieu, Pierre, and public relations. In Heath, R. L. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Public Relations: second edition (pp. 78-79). SAGE Publications.
  • Edwards, Lee (2013). Critical discourse analysis. In Heath, R. L. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Public Relations: second edition (pp. 225-227). SAGE Publications.
  • Edwards, Lee (2013). Diversity: public relations profession. In Heath, R. L. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Public Relations: second edition (pp. 271-273). SAGE Publications.
  • Edwards, Lee, L'Etang, Jacquie (2013). Invisible and visible identities and sexualities in public relations. In Tindall, N. T. & Waters, R. D. (Eds.), Coming out of the Closet: Exploring LGBT Issues in Strategic Communication with Theory and Research (pp. 41-57). Verlag Peter Lang.
  • Edwards, Lee (2013). Mit Bourdieu public relations verstehen. In Wiedemann, T. & Meyen, M. (Eds.), Pierre Bourdieu und die Kommunikationswissenschaft . Herbert von Halem Verlag.
  • Edwards, Lee (2013). Modernity and late modernity. In Heath, R. L. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Public Relations: second edition (pp. 573-575). SAGE Publications.
  • Edwards, Lee (2013). Power, symbolic. In Heath, R. L. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Public Relations . SAGE Publications.
  • Hodges, Caroline E. M., Edwards, Lee (2013). Public relations practitioners. In Smith Maguire, J. & Matthews, J. (Eds.), The Cultural Intermediaries Reader . SAGE Publications.
    • 2012
  • Edwards, Lee (2012). Exploring the role of public relations as a cultural intermediary occupation. Cultural Sociology, 6(4), 438-454. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975512445428
  • Bourne, Clea, Edwards, Lee (2012). Producing trust, knowledge and expertise in financial markets: the global hedge fund industry ‘re-presents’ itself. Culture and Organization, 18(2), 107-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2011.636614
  • Edwards, Lee (2012). Defining the ‘object’ of public relations research: A new starting point. Public Relations Inquiry, 1(1), 7-30. https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147X11422149
  • Edwards, Lee (2012). Critical race theory and public relations. In Waymer, D. (Ed.), Culture, Social Class, and Race in Public Relations: Perspectives and Applications . Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Edwards, Lee (2012). Diversity in public relations. In Edwards, L. & Hodges, C. E. M. (Eds.), Public Relations, Society & Culture Theoretical and Empirical Explorations (pp. 75-89). Routledge.
  • Edwards, Lee (2012). Introduction: implications of a (Radical) socio-cultural ‘turn’ in public relations scholarship. In Edwards, L. & Hodges, C. E. M. (Eds.), Public Relations, Society & Culture Theoretical and Empirical Explorations (pp. 1-14). Routledge.
  • Edwards, Lee (2012). Public relations and society: a Bourdieuvian perspective. In Edwards, L. & Hodges, C. E. M. (Eds.), Public Relations, Society & Culture Theoretical and Empirical Explorations (pp. 61-74). Routledge.
  • Edwards, Lee (2012). Public relations’ occupational culture: habitus, exclusion and resistance in the UK context. In Krishnamurthy, S. & Vercic, D. (Eds.), Culture and Public Relations (pp. 142-162). Routledge.
    • 2011
  • Edwards, Lee (2011). Public relations for information and communications technologies: principles and planning. In Tench, R. & Yeomans, L. (Eds.), Exploring Public Relations (2nd Edition) (pp. 481-497). Pearson Education, Inc..
  • Edwards, Lee (2011). Public relations origins: definitions and history. In Tench, R. & Yeomans, L. (Eds.), Exploring Public Relations (2nd Edition) (pp. 3-18). Pearson Education, Inc..
  • Edwards, Lee (2011). Public relations theories: an overview. In Tench, R. & Yeomans, L. (Eds.), Exploring Public Relations (2nd Edition) (pp. 149-173). Pearson Education, Inc..
  • Munshi, Debashish, Edwards, Lee (2011). Understanding ‘Race’ in/and public relations: where do we start and where should we go? Journal of Public Relations Research, 23(4), 349-367. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726X.2011.605976
  • Edwards, Lee, Heath, Robert L., Taylor, Maureen, Palenchar, Michael J. (2011). Questions of self-interest, agency, and the rhetor. Management Communication Quarterly, 25(3), 531-540. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318911409866
  • Edwards, Lee (2011). Critical perspectives in global public relations: theorizing power. In Bardhan, N. & Weaver, C. K. (Eds.), Public Relations in Global Cultural Contexts: Multi-paradigmatic Perspectives . Routledge.
  • Edwards, Lee, Hodges, Caroline E. M. (2011). Public relations, society & culture: theoretical and empirical explorations. Routledge.
    • 2010
  • Edwards, Lee (2010). An exploratory study of the experiences of ‘BAME’ PR practitioners in the UK industry: industry report. Manchester Business School.
  • Edwards, Lee, Henderson, Alison (2010). Authenticity in organisational context: fragmentation, contradiction and loss of control. Journal of Communication Management, 14(3), 192-205. https://doi.org/10.1108/13632541011064481
  • Henderson, Alison, Edwards, Lee (2010). Guest editorial: authenticity. Journal of Communication Management, 14(3). https://doi.org/10.1108/jcom.2010.30714caa.001
  • Edwards, Lee (2010). Race in public relations. In Heath, R. L. (Ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Public Relations (pp. 205-221). SAGE Publications.
    • 2009
  • Edwards, Lee (2009). Symbolic power and public relations practice: locating individual practitioners in their social context. Journal of Public Relations Research, 21(3), 251-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/10627260802640674
    • 2008
  • Edwards, Lee (2008). PR practitioners’ cultural capital: an initial study and implications for research and practice. Public Relations Review, 34(4), 367-372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2008.06.004
    • 2006
  • Edwards, Lee (2006). Rethinking power in public relations. Public Relations Review, 32(3), 229-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2006.05.013
    • 2005
  • Tench, Ralph, Fawkes, J, Edwards, Lee (2005). Freelancing in the communications industries. Leeds Business School.
    • 1997
  • Chong, Lee Moya Ah, Thomas, David C. (1997). Leadership perceptions in cross-cultural context: Pakeha and Pacific islanders in New zealand. Leadership Quarterly, 8(3), 275-293. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1048-9843(97)90004-7
    • 1995
  • Chong, Lee Moya Ah, Thomas, David C. (1995). Cross-cultural research in New Zealand organisations: what we know and what needs to be addressed. Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, 1(02), 14-32. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1833367200006301