page_title: Public
section_title: Extension
hierarchical_section_title: Public / Publics and problems / Extension
caption_attribution_description: English: Situational Theory of Problem Solving
context_page_description: In communication science and public relations, "public" mostly means people. The meaning of this is different than other ideas, such as gatherings in social life to talk about people. The meaning of this is also talked about in the learning of government, the learning of how humans think, and the learning of giving things to people. This word's meaning is very hard to make, as people think that public has different meanings.
context_section_description: Even though the theory is well developed, it develops even more common. The theory has been used to show why people join groups who really want things to happen (activist groups), to organize the external (real, actual) and internal (perceived) parts (dimensions) of problem recognition, and to learn whether information that is used in information processing (processed information) can create publics. Also, some more research was done on the internal and external dimensions of problem recognition, constraint recognition, and level of involvement (Grunig & Hon, 1988; Grunig, 1997). The research is about whether the ideas are internal or external. The research shows that if the concepts are internal, they can be changed by communication, and that if they are external, then the holdable things that are around the person need to be changed in order for the person's concept of the variables to change (Grunig, 1997, p. 25). But, there is a small amount of research on the internal and external dimensions of the three key concepts, so there can be more studies on these concepts (Grunig, 1997). Then, in 2011, Jeong-Nam Kim and Grunig extended the theory to the situational theory of problem solving.
caption: The situational theory of publics was extended to the situational theory of problem solving in 2011.
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