Special Issue: Kategoria, Apologia, Antapologia, and Image Repair

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Guest Commentary
When Case Studies are Not Enough: A Commentary on the State of Image Repair Research
by Kevin A. Stein & Matthew H. Barton

UJOC Featured Article
Will Smith’s Oscars Slap: Apologia and the Use of Time
by Brent Kice

Featured Student Article
Celebrity Image Repair Efforts Following Racist Comments
by Joseph Tanner Gage

Original Research
‘Hear the Cry of the Little Ones’: Pope Francis’s image repair discourse in response to the child sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church
by Matthew G. Gerber & Heather L. Gerber

Brief Report
The Gobert Report: How Rudy’s reputational crisis followed him to Minneapolis
by Braden H. Bagley and Hayden V. Coombs

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