Digital Diplomacy

“Facebook is the most difficult channel for us” a social media manager at a foreign ministry recently admitted, echoing a sentiment shared by many...

  Janibek BEKTEMISSOV SOCIAL NETWORKS IN MODERN DIPLOMACY “Digitalisation is not a goal, but it is a means to achieve the absolute advantage of Kazakhstan." President of...

The influence of clicks (Photo: Thomas Trutschel via Getty) From Bitcoin to YouTube, the internet has greatly altered the way humans behave and interact. This...

A Somali government official was fired over controversial diplomatic tweets he made in respect of Israel and Palestine. Abdullahi Dool, until March 31 was...

BBC Crtež na kojem ljude obešene na štriku nadgleda vojnik sa batinom u ruci i znakom američkog dolara na uniformi dok im iz džepova ispada...

If you participate in social media, you are being spun.  And that’s a problem for government communicators, especially in public diplomacy. LikeWar: The Weaponization of...

The Swedish Institute—a public diplomacy organization working under the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)—has worked with digital media tools that monitor social media...

7min Read Facebook is launching a new feature that explains how its algorithms decide what to display in your News Feed. You can finally find out why you only see your best friends pictures first or the most popular politician or those glorious food posts on your timeline you scroll through in the middle of the night. A new “Why am I seeing this post?” button will indicate what activity influenced Facebook’s algorithms. This is a major break through for digital diplomacy, as this new feature, will help users understands their habits. Which may perhaps make some users more purposeful about what they choose to view on their timelines. It is the first time the company has given people access to this insight directly in its app and on the website. What will be interesting to see as the new feature rolls out is whether other social media applications like Instagram, Twitter, YouTube etc… might also be pressurized to install this new feature. As Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others soc..

Oleg Shakirov, expert of the Center for strategic research and Russian International Affairs Council expert, tells PICREADI about digital diplomacy and how social media...

President Trump threw out the diplomatic rule book when he took office, tweeting gleefully about sensitive global issues, be it the nuclear showdown with...