CHAPTER 1
MH370 AS A NATIONAL PR CASE: CONTROVERSY AND CHALLENGES
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Background of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappearance
1.3 Outline of the incident: Critical moments of the MH370 crisis
1.4 Malaysia's government image, patronage politics, and airline
governance
1.5 Initial media representations: A cooperative yet nonprofessional or
inefficient searcher
1.6 MH370 controversy over the incident: Professionalism, transparency,
and diplomacy
1.7 Influence of MH370 controversy: Malaysia in PR challenges
1.8 Significance of the research: Discourse, crisis and PR practice
1.9 Research aims and research questions
1.10 Outline of the research
CHAPTER 2
PR RESEARCH ON NATIONAL CRISES: NATIONAL IMAGE AND CRISIS RESPONSE
2.1 Introduction
2.2 (Political) public relations, key stakeholders and social agents
2.3 An overview of national image
2.3.1 Definition of national image
2.3.2 Fundamental aspects of national image
2.3.3 Notions of and differences between image, reputation and identity
2.4 PR issues for a nation: National crisis, image and recovery
2.4.1 Crisis and national crisis in the PR context
2.4.2 National image as one crucial PR concept
2.4.3 Crisis happening, image rebuilding and national recovery
2.4.3.1 Introduction to 3Rs: Resolving, responding and recovering
2.4.3.2 Crisis response on the negative side: "blame game
2.4.3.3 Crisis response on the positive side: "leadership image
2.4.3.4 Crisis resolution towards national recovery
2.5 Previous studies of airline incidents as (national) crises
2.5.1 Contemporary politics: Conspiracy theories as instances of
disaster response
2.5.2 Journalism practice: News report as a reflection of media and
national differences
2.5.3 Image repair: PR strategies in (national) airline crisis
communication
2.6 MH370 (and Malaysia) as a case of crisis communication and
management
2.7 MH370 and PR perspective: Crisis response and image repair as
material action
2.7.1 Crisis recognition and response as part of communication process
2.7.2 National image repair and situational crisis communication
2.8 MH370 and CDS perspective: Discourse and communication as social
practice
2.8.1 Introduction to Critical Discourse Studies
2.8.2 CDS research on national image and crisis representation
2.8.3 Fairclough's three-dimensional model for discourse and social
change
2.9 An integrated approach to analysing MH370 crisis response and image
rebuilding
2.9.1 A historical review of critical investigation into PR research
2.9.2 Integrating PR and CDS I: Framing national crisis through media
discourse
2.9.3 Integrating PR and CDS II: Negotiating response strategies in
institutional discourse
2.9.4 In
