Using social marketing initiatives to address disconnection in the Lockyer Valley Region
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Paper/Presentation Title | Using social marketing initiatives to address disconnection in the Lockyer Valley Region |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Miller, Karen (Author) and Pedersen, Cec (Author) |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 2012 International Social Marketing Conference |
ERA Conference ID | 50909 |
Number of Pages | 5 |
Year | 2012 |
Place of Publication | Nathan, Brisbane, Australia |
ISBN | 9781921760686 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://aasm.org.au/ism2012/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ISM2012-Proceedings.pdf |
Conference/Event | 2012 International Social Marketing Conference |
International Social Marketing Conference | |
Event Details | 2012 International Social Marketing Conference Event Date 27 to end of 29 Jun 2012 Event Location Brisbane, Australia |
Event Details | International Social Marketing Conference ISM Conference |
Abstract | The Lockyer Valley (LV) lies west of Brisbane and east of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, and is an area recognised as exhibiting high-levels of disconnection between its residents. High-levels of community disconnection may impede sustainable growth, affect the ongoing flood recovery and impede initiatives by the local council and state government to improve connectivity. This makes the LV an interesting case to study ways of reducing residential disconnection and building community connectivity. Feelings of disconnect occur when residents have a separate self-schema and feel separate or distinct from other residents (Babin & Harris, 2011). Some residents do not identify with the LV as a place to call home, and more readily identify with neighbouring regions such as Ipswich, Somerset and Toowoomba, as these areas are where some LV residents work and/or send their children to school. Underpinning connectivity is community engagement (CE) theory, which is a synergistic activity whereby participants exchange information, experience relationships and the pleasures of human contact which, in turn, rewards participating people intrinsically through pride in oneself and extrinsically by way of social approval (Abdul-Ghani, Hyde & Marshall, 2011). CE theories suggest that identifying with a single community, feeling connectedness and having a sense of belongingness leads to positive outcomes for the locality (LV) and its residents (Rose, 2000; Mathwick, Wiertz & Ruyter, 2008). CE theorists (e.g. Foster-Fisherman, Cantillon, Pierce & Van Egeren, 2007; Taylor, 2007) also suggest that residents should be drivers of the change process. The Catch-22 situation for the LV is how the residents can drive a change if they are not connecting with each other or perceiving their own self-schema as a LV resident. |
Keywords | community engagement; Lockyer Valley; social marketing; brand community; brand engagement; attitude change theories |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 350604. Marketing communications |
350799. Strategy, management and organisational behaviour not elsewhere classified | |
350605. Marketing management (incl. strategy and customer relations) | |
Public Notes | Copyright rests with the authors. For Australian delegates, all papers presented in the Academic papers section have passed the competitive review process and were presented at ISM 2012. Proceedings are Category E, Conference Publications: E1, Full Written Paper, Refereed. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Management and Marketing |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q19z5/using-social-marketing-initiatives-to-address-disconnection-in-the-lockyer-valley-region
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