Public Relations and Relationship Marketing of Higher Education Facilities in the Time of New Media
Public Relations and Relationship Marketing of Higher Education Facilities in the Time of New Media

Summary/Abstract: The development of new media, especially social media, has changed the activities in the field of marketing communication. Former, one-way communication patterns in the era of Internet platforms and the prosumer approach cease to be effective, while the importance of forms based on interaction and co-participation is growing. The author, basing on the analysis of literature, indicates the most important features of the new media, especially social media as communication tools of PR and relationship marketing. In a synthetic manner, she indicates the benefits of the Web 2.0 environment. Successively, referring to Polish higher education facilities, she presents the main social media tools used by the facilities for communication. The author also conducted a questionnaire survey among students of the Silesian University of Technology. These studies involved the use of social media to communicate with teachers. The main source of information and communication is still the university site and its mailing, only 32% visited the university’s Facebook profile. The introduction of social media as a communication tool between teachers and students might, as students think, have a positive effect on the perception of universities.

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