Dr. I.J. (Irina) Lock
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
CW : Corporate Communication
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
- Room number: C7.10
Postal address
- Postbus 15791
1001 NG Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
Irina Lock is assistant professor of corporate communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) in the program group corporate communication. Her research interests lie in digital corporate communication, corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication, and public affairs and lobbying.
Prior to this, she worked as a postdoc researcher at the Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, where whe also obtained her PhD with a thesis on "Credibility in CSR Communication. Concepts, Methods, Analyses." The thesis won the best PhD prize 2014/15 of the Faculty of Communication Sciences.
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Publications
2020
Araujo, T., Lock, I., & van de Velde, B. (2020). Automated Visual Content Analysis (AVCA) in communication research: A protocol for large scale image classification with pre-trained computer vision models. Communication Methods and Measures, 14(4), 239-265. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2020.1810648 [details]- Lock, I. (2020). Debating glyphosate: A macro perspective on the role of strategic communication in forming and monitoring A global issue arena using inductive topic modelling. International Journal of Strategic Communication, 14(4), 223-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/1553118X.2020.1780240 [details]
- Lock, I. (2020). Politischer Einfluss durch Kommunikation: Public Affairs in Europa. In U. Röttger, P. Donges, & A. Zerfaß (Eds.), Handbuch Public Affairs: Politische Kommunikation für Unternehmen und Organisationen (Live ed.). Springer Gabler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23391-4_4-1 [details]
- Lock, I. (2020). Wie wirkt kongruente text-bild-sprache auf glaubwürdigkeit und handlungsabsichten in der integrationsdebatte? Ein online-experiment zu den Internetseiten der Bertelsmann Stiftung und des Bundesinnenministeriums. Publizistik, 65(3), 425-450. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-020-00577-5 [details]
- Lock, I. J., & Araujo, T. B. (2020). Visualizing the triple bottom line: A large‐scale automated visual content analysis of European corporations' website and social media images. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 27, 2631-2641. https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1988
- Lock, I. J., Stachel, C., & Seele, P. (2020). Traveling frames: How corporate and civil society actors try to influence public administration and courts in a case on nuclear emission data in Switzerland. Journal of Public Affairs, 20, [e2008]. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2008
- Lock, I., & Ludolph, R. (2020). Organizational propaganda on the Internet: A systematic review. Public Relations Inquiry, 9(1), 103-127. https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147X19870844 [details]
- Lock, I., Wonneberger, A., Verhoeven, P., & Hellsten, I. (2020). Back to the Roots? The Applications of Communication Science Theories in Strategic Communication Research. International Journal of Strategic Communication, 14(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/1553118X.2019.1666398 [details]
2019
- Lock, I. (2019). Explicating communicative organization-stakeholder relationships in the digital age: A systematic review and research agenda. Public Relations Review, 45(4), [101829]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2019.101829 [details]
- Lock, I., & Schulz-Knappe, C. (2019). Credible corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication predicts legitimacy: Evidence from an experimental study. Corporate Communications, 24, 2-20. https://doi.org/10.1108/CCIJ-07-2018-0071 [details]
2018
- Ihlen, Ø., Raknes, K., Somerville, I., Valentini, C., Stachel, C., Lock, I., Davidson, S., & Seele, P. (2018). Framing “the public interest”: Comparing public lobbying campaigns in four European states. Journal of Public Interest Communications, 2(1), 107-128. https://doi.org/10.32473/jpic.v2.i1 [details]
- Lock, I., & Seele, P. (2018). Gauging the rigor of qualitative case studies in comparative lobbying research: A framework and guideline for research and analysis. Journal of Public Affairs, 18(4), [e1832]. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.1832 [details]
- Lock, I., & Seele, P. (2018). Politicized CSR: How corporate political activity (mis-)uses political CSR. Journal of Public Affairs, 18(3), [e1667]. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.1667 [details]
2017
- Lock, I., & Seele, P. (2017). Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Affairs and Corporate Community Involvement: Torn between Instrumentalism and Deliberation. In P. Harris, & C. S. Fleisher (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of International Corporate and Public Affairs (pp. 550-564). Sage Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473947391.n31 [details]
- Lock, I., & Seele, P. (2017). Measuring credibility perceptions in CSR communication: A scale development to test readers’ perceived credibility of CSR reports. Management Communication Quarterly, 31(4), 584-613. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318917707592 [details]
- Lock, I., & Seele, P. (2017). Quantitative content analysis as a method for business ethics research. In P. H. Werhane, R. E. Freeman, & S. Dmytriyev (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Research Approaches to Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility (pp. 155-171). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316584385.011 [details]
- Lock, I., & Seele, P. (2017). The Consequences of Astroturf Lobbying for Trust and Authenticity: Findings and Implications from an Experiment. Communication Management Review, 2(1), 30-52. https://doi.org/10.22522/cmr20170121 [details]
- Lock, I., & Seele, P. (2017). Theorizing stakeholders of sustainability in the digital age. Sustainability Science, 12(2), 235-245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-016-0404-2 [details]
- Seele, P., & Lock, I. (2017). The game-changing potential of digitalization for sustainability: possibilities, perils, and pathways. Sustainability Science, 12(2), 183-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-017-0426-4 [details]
2016
- Lock, I. (2016). Glaubwürdigkeit in der CSR-Kommunikation Entwicklung eines legitimätsbasierten Ansatzes. Publizistik, 61(4), 413-429. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-016-0300-x
- Lock, I. J., Seele, P., & Heath, R. L. (2016). Where grass has no roots: The concept of ‘shared strategic communication’ as an answer to unethical astroturf lobbying. International Journal of Strategic Communication, 10, 87-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/1553118X.2015.1116002
- Lock, I., & Seele, P. (2016). CSR governance and departmental organization: a typology of best practices. Corporate Governance, 16(1), 211-230. https://doi.org/10.1108/CG-01-2015-0010
- Lock, I., & Seele, P. (2016). Deliberative Lobbying? Toward a Noncontradiction of Corporate Political Activities and Corporate Social Responsibility? Journal of Management Inquiry, 25(4), 415-430. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492616640379
- Lock, I., & Seele, P. (2016). The credibility of CSR (corporate social responsibility) reports in Europe. Evidence from a quantitative content analysis in 11 countries. Journal of cleaner production, 122, 186-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.02.060
- Von Schnurbein, G., Seele, P., & Lock, I. (2016). Exclusive corporate philanthropy: Rethinking the nexus of CSR and corporate philanthropy. Social Responsibility Journal, 12(2), 280-294. https://doi.org/10.1108/SRJ-10-2014-0149
2015
- Lock, I. J., Seele, P., & Heath, R. L. (2015). Grass with no roots: How Astroturf lobbying undermines OPR’s intention to promote good in society. In Communication Ethics in a Connected World Peter Lang.
- Lock, I., & Seele, P. (2015). Analyzing sector-specific CSR reporting: Social and environmental disclosure to investors in the chemicals and banking and insurance industry. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 22(2), 113-128. https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1338
- Lock, I., & Seele, P. (2015). Quantitative content analysis as a method for business ethics research. Business Ethics: A European review, 24(S1), S24-S40. https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12095
- Seele, P., & Lock, I. (2015). Instrumental and/or Deliberative? A Typology of CSR Communication Tools. Journal of Business Ethics, 131(2), 401-414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2282-9
- Seele, P., & Lock, I. J. (2015). CfP: Sustainability and Digitalization: A GameChanger? Possibilities, Perils, Pathways. Sustainability Science, 10(3), 373.
2013
- Lock, I. J., & Seele, P. (2013). Conceptualizing CSR communication within political CSR. In The second international CSR communication conference. Proceedings. CSR Communication Conference 2013. University of Aarhus.
2011
- Lock, I. J., & Seele, P. (2011). Analyzing industry-specific CSR reporting to investors. In Communicating Social Responsibility. Proceedings, CSR Communication Conference, Amsterdam University of Amsterdam.
2018
- Araujo, T., Lock, I., & van de Velde, B. (2018). Extracting theory from black boxes: Using machine vision APIs in communication research. In IEEE 14th International Conference on eScience: proceedings : 29 October-1 November 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (pp. 310-311). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2018.00068 [details]
2014
- Lock, I. J. (2014). Franzisca Weder: Die CSR-Debatte in den Printmedien. R:k:m . http://www.rkm-journal.de/archives/16805
- Lock, I. J. (2014). Stichwort Glaubwürdigkeit. Forum Wirtschaftsethik, 3, 17.
2019
- Lock, I. J., & Araujo, T. B. (2019). Combining machine vision and text mining on websites: Toward an approach for automated multimodal content analysis. Abstract from International Communication Association (ICA), Washington, United States.
Award
- Lock, I. (2018). Robert Heath Award Top Faculty Paper.
- Lock, I. (2017). Euprera PhD Award for Excellent Doctoral Thesis.
- Lock, I. (2015). Best PhD thesis 2014/15 of the Faculty of Communication Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana.
2020
- Lock, I. J. & Giani, S. (26-5-2020). I.LOCK_S.GIANI_SAMPLE_S1_Review of reviews_Sample selection. Universiteit van Amsterdam. https://doi.org/10.21942/uva.12369287.v2
- Lock, I. J. (14-5-2020). I.Lock_DATASET_Experiment multimodal congruence in organizations' communication. Universiteit van Amsterdam. https://doi.org/10.21942/uva.12307196.v1
- Lock, I. J. (14-5-2020). I.Lock_DATASET_Pretest experiment multimodal congruence. Universiteit van Amsterdam. https://doi.org/10.21942/uva.12307211.v1
2019
- Lock, I. J. & Seele, P. (3-10-2019). Scale Development: The Credibility Gap in CSR Reporting. Universiteit van Amsterdam. https://doi.org/10.21942/uva.9933290.v1
- Lock, I. J. & Seele, P. (3-10-2019). Content Analysis: The Credibility Gap in CSR Reporting. Universiteit van Amsterdam. https://doi.org/10.21942/uva.9933266.v1
- Lock, I. J. & Ludolph, R. (13-8-2019). I.Lock_DATASET_Organizational Propaganda_Systematic Review_PRI. Universiteit van Amsterdam. https://doi.org/10.21942/uva.9587144.v1
- Lock, I. J. (31-7-2019). I.Lock_DATASET_Explicating Relationships_Systematic Review. Universiteit van Amsterdam. https://doi.org/10.21942/uva.9198026.v1
- Lock, I. J. & Schulz-Knappe, C. (21-5-2019). DATASET_DE_Lock and Schulz-Knappe 2019_Credible corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication predicts legitimacy: Evidence from an experimental study.. Universiteit van Amsterdam. https://doi.org/10.21942/uva.7907243.v1
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Araujo, T., Lock, I., & van de Velde, B. (2020). Automated Visual Content Analysis (AVCA) in communication research: A protocol for large scale image classification with pre-trained computer vision models. Communication Methods and Measures, 14(4), 239-265.