PUBLIC

Public

In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, it has suffered in more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the ...

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public

Noun

  1. The people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
    Members of the public may not proceed beyond this point.
  2. A public house; an inn.

Adjective

  1. Able to be seen or known by everyone; open to general view, happening without concealment.
  2. Pertaining to all the people as a whole (as opposed a private group); concerning the whole country, community etc.
  3. Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the state on behalf of the community.
  4. Open to all members of a community; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes.
  5. Traded publicly via a stock market.


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