Digital Diplomacy

Canada in the Middle East: How bold digital diplomacy is making waves in the region 0
- Digital Diplomacy, Diplo Learning Corner, Public diplomacy
- 16/08/2018
It’s past midnight on a Friday evening in Tunis. The Canadian Ambassador to Tunisia and his social media team are riveted to their mobile devices, eagerly monitoring Facebook activity. Homosexuality is a crime in Tunisia and across the Middle East and Northern Africa region, and the Embassy just published a series of controversial posts on
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Twiplomacy Study 2018 0
- Digital Diplomacy, Diplo Learning Corner, Technology, Tweetpedia
- 14/08/2018
Executive Summary All the world’s atwitter! Or almost. Ninety-seven percent of all 193 UN member states have an official presence on the platform. The governments of only six countries, namely Laos, Mauritania, Nicaragua, North Korea, Swaziland and Turkmenistan do not have an official presence on the platform. Even the Chinese government’s State Council Information Office
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Digital Diplomacy Myths 0
- " Just Oppinion ", Digital Diplomacy
- 05/08/2018
In the introductory chapter to the edited volume on Digital Diplomacy: Theory and Practice that Marcus Holmes and I published four years ago, I asked the question of whether digital technologies could be seen as a harbinger of change for diplomacy by revolutionizing the way diplomats perform their traditional functions of representation, communication and negotiation.
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Kommersant interview with Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova 0
- " Just Oppinion ", Digital Diplomacy, Public diplomacy, Who is who in Digital and Public Diplomacy
- 01/08/2018
“I am surprised when individual posts or comments are sensationalized that much” — Note: this interview was conducted by Kommersant reporter Elena Chernenko and was published in Russian on July 20, 2018. This is an English translation done with Yandex.Translate with my edits. Maria Zakharova, Head of the Department of Information and Press of the Ministry
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‘Digital Diplomacy’? On the Perils and Pleasures of Twitter Politics 0
- Digital Diplomacy
- 30/07/2018
By Eleanor Beavor For observers of world politics, Twitter is no longer a place to switch off. Politicians are increasingly foraying into social media, even onto more casual platforms for engagement such as Instagram. But Twitter is where statements that need to get out quickly are made. It is where debate is at its most
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The Twitter Purge and Digital Diplomacy in the Middle East 0
- Digital Diplomacy, Tweetpedia
- 27/07/2018
The company’s crackdown on fake accounts caused a stir in some regional countries, but the expanding use of encrypted messaging platforms may say more about the people’s sentiment toward their leaders. When Twitter purged millions of fake accounts on July 13, Saudi Arabia seized on the incident as an opportunity to embarrass its rival Qatar.
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