De la educación a la orientación hacia la sociedad: hacia una profesionalización de la gestión de comunicación en Latinoamérica
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Esta investigación longitudinal cuantitativa analiza la evolución de la profesionalización de las relaciones públicas en América Latina utilizando datos procedentes de dos encuestas realizadas en los años 2009 y 2015. En total, 1.477 profesionales participaron en estos dos estudios, confirmando la idea de que la profesionalización es un proceso dinámico (Pieczka y L’Etang, 2001, 2006). Los resultados mostraron pequeñas pero significativas mejoras en cuatro indicadores: el estudio formal de las relaciones públicas en instituciones de educación superior, la existencia de unos principios éticos que hacen hincapié en el bienestar de la sociedad, el peso de las organizaciones profesionales, la disponibilidad de un cuerpo formal del conocimiento, y el acceso al empleo y la promoción. En general, se aprecia que los profesionales más jóvenes tienden a ser más críticos con respecto a los diferentes factores de profesionalización.
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