Digital Diplomacy

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...

Jaws dropped at the State Department last November when President Donald Trump tweeted a "Game of Thrones"-style poster warning Iran that "Sanctions are coming." The...

FOTO TANJUG/ ZORAN ZESTIC BEOGRAD – Italijanski ambasador u Srbiji Karlo Lo Kašo poručio je putem Tvitera predsedniku Srbije da će zajedno sa...

A couple of months ago, I found myself in a classroom at the Foreign Service Institute with a dozen other trainees and a yogi. It...

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uscpublicdiplomacy.org Digital Diplomacy Conference #diplocampDutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 🇳🇱 ✔@DutchMFAOn 7 February 2019, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs brought together 150 experts on tech, digital and international relations @NLatEU in Brussels. To discuss the challenges, share practical tools and design solutions around digital diplomacy. Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs ✔@DutchMFA Feb 8, 2019 USC Public Diplomacy@PublicDiplomacy#Diplocamp takes off! Which topic piques your interest? From #AI to #ImmersiveStorytelling to #ElectionIntegrity and much, much more, the future of #DigitalDiplomacy is here and we want to explore it all. #DigDiplo #PublicDiplomacy @DutchMFA @USC @USCAnnenberg #ascj #usc #PDWeek Feb 7, 2019 Ziad Ramley ✔@ziadramleyThis was so much fun! Thanks to everyone at #DiploCamp who attended @NLinBEFeb 7, 2019 Vince Gonzales@VgonzalesUSCWhat a great day at the Digital Diplomacy Camp. Thank you to everyone at @PublicDiplomacy and all the particip..