ABSTRACT
This chapter applies the auto-ethnographic method to examine how public relations plays out in our everyday lives. It adapts the media trope of ‘a day in the life of’ to examine a series of anecdotes about mundane activities that take place over a weekend and offers a reflection on how public relations works in the shadows to influence these activities and functions as part of a socialisation machine. How public relations machinations politicise, commodify or capture leisure through discursive frames and particular power relations are discussed in relation to a series of rights relating to information, identity, cultural sense making and autonomy.
