ABSTRACT
The dynamic interplay between organisations, media, and society is central to this chapter and highlights ASCoR’s Corporate Communication group’s issue-centred and society-focused approach to explore communication between organisations and their environment. Studying this interplay allows questions to be answered regarding organisations’ role in our mediated society, how organisations shape and are shaped by public and media debates, and how societal issues have become inherently intertwined with organisational practices. To provide a broad overview of the studies conducted by ASCoR researchers on this specific topic, this chapter outlines three main topics: (i) organisations and news media, (2) mediatisation of organisations, and (3) organisational legitimacy.
