The fight for Voice of America
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Commercial Brands as a Soft Power Tool
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Feminist Foreign Policy: A moment of introspection
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The Soft Power: The U.S.-Chinese-Russian Competition
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Russia’s Cultural Diplomacy in Multipolar World. Africa’s Role, Challenges and Benefits
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Reflecting on Elon Musk’s Acquisition of Twitter and China’s Twitter Diplomacy
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Higher Education and Diplomacy: Essential Skills for Becoming a Diplomat
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Religious diplomacy
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Monday’s Must Read List- Best of 2021
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week I have curated a list of the most important digital news of 2021.
Happy Holidays!
Leveraging digital technology during the pandemic (Brookings)The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online (The New York Times)Tokyo 2020: TikTok becomes the unofficial behind-the-scenes Olympic channel (BBC News)Facebook Will Not Fix Itself (Time Magazine)Danish White Paper: Towards a better social contract with big tech (Danish MFA)AUKUS essentially a ‘defence industry and technology information sharing arrangement’ (Sky News)Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago (The Atlantic)AI fake-face generators can be rewound to reveal the real faces they trained on (MIT Technology Review)‘Conditioning an entire society’: the rise of biometric data technology (The Guardian)Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software (CNN)
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Mondays’ Must Read List
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
The 20 Most Promising Israeli Startups to Follow in 2021 (Haaretz Newspaper)WSJ’s deep dive into eating disorder on TikTok explains a sudden policy change (The Verge)What is the metaverse? (BBC News)Could Supernova be an ‘ethical alternative’ to the social media giants? (TechCrunch)How to save our social media by treating it like a city (MIT Technology Review)Facebook Warns 50,000 Users Were Targeted By Spy-For-Hire Companies (Forbes)The year Reddit changed Wall Street forever (CNN News)LGBTQ people in need of stand-in parents at weddings find ‘family’ in Facebook group (USA Today)What Google’s trending searches say about America in 2021 (Vox)
Some light reading- Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle