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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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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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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International diplomacy is changing fast. Career diplomats in Washington are increasingly finding themselves sidelined and distrusted by their own political masters. Meanwhile, in Beijing, China’s foreign policy professionals are being schooled to prioritise nationalistic rhetoric over subtle negotiation. Then there’s the advent of social media and the 24-hour news cycle. The days of discreet deal-making
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October 15, 2014 How did the British press report last evening’s abandoned Serbia vs Albania Euro 2016 qualifier? Nearly all made basic errors in fact, each time erring on the side of distortion. The facts are incendiary enough The match brawl was ignited when a drone flew into Belgrade Partizan stadium carrying a banner depicting
NJUJORK – Srpska vlada koristila se digitalnom diplomatijom posebno tokom razornih poplava u maju ove godine, pa je čak i otvorila zvanični “Pejpal” nalog kako bi prikupila pomoć za žrtve poplava, navodi se u nedavno objavljenoj studiji “Tviplomatija”, koju je sprovela globalna kompanija za odnose sa javnošću i komunikacije “Burson-Marsteler”, sa sedištem u NJujorku.
Kad svetski zvaničnici danas razgovaraju, postoji i značajna razlika u načinu na koji diplomate komuniciraju. Uticaj se više ne meri samo posebnim vezama i starim savezima, nego i time u koju “Votsap” grupu ste pozvani, piše britanski “Gardijan”. Foto: Whatsapp / Promo Ovim emotikonom zapadne diplomate predstavljaju ruskog predsednika pri neformalnoj komunikaciji Uspon takozvane “Votsap
Every country has its mysteries. Serbia has its own, and some of them have never been explored nor has any information uncovered about them. The first mystery is an ancient fortress called Zrnov. It was located near Belgrade, however, today it does not exist anymore. “Domino Magazin” learned that the history of the fortress is
The first “UN Social Media Day” will take place at UN Headquarters in Conference Room 3 on Friday 30 January 2015. All are invited to join the conversation online by using the hashtag of the day: #SocialUN! Anyone with a UN grounds pass is welcome to stop by for one session to to stay for a full
In the early days of digital diplomacy, MFAs and diplomats viewed social media as linear communication tools. Diplomats believed that they could use social media to craft a message and directly disseminate it among online publics. Thus, social media was no different from other mass media such as the radio and television. Yet as the
Secretary Kerry Speaks at Press Conference in Berlin I grew up the son of a Foreign Service Officer during the Cold War. The issues were fairly defined, and diplomacy was most often conducted between high level officials inside governments. What a different era we live in today — and what a new challenge for the craft
In defending our right to consume film, music, art and culture as free citizens, the danger is converting the internet from a thriving marketplace of ideas to a barricaded fortress. “The Interview,” regardless of whether you perceive this film as funny or in bad taste has now also risen to the level of precedent-setting event
