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Comments on text Does social media really bring us closer to the reality of...

A Buzzfeed list of 27 "heartbreaking" images of the Venezuelan protests was created, and shared by progressive activists around the world. Perhaps those activists...

Does Social Media Really Bring Us Closer To The Reality Of Conflict?

When I was 19 I read about Plato's Theory of Forms. The theory, crudely put, argues that everything exists in a metaphysical realm in...

Jamie Oliver and the Gastrodiplomacy of Simulacra

By Francesco Buscemi This work aims to investigate the gastrodiplomatic objectives of food travelogues on TV, and more precisely of the food travelogue Jamieʼs Great...

Meet the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security

  Link to video: Who holds the seven keys to the internet? In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles...

War and Peas: Culinary Conflict Resolution as Citizen Diplomacy

By Sam Chapple-Sokol Food can be used as a tool of public diplomacy, variously known as culinary diplomacy, gastrodiplomacy, and diplomatic gastronomy. It remains a...

Cooking Up A Conversation: Gastrodiplomacy in Contemporary Public Art

By Carly Schmitt Food is one of the oldest forms of exchange. Our mutual dependence on food is often cited as the most basic element...

Like the cuisine, like the country

Thailand's gastro-diplomacy THE Thai government has discovered that foreigners quite like Thai food. There are about 5,500 Thai restaurants around the world. In a plan...

Hard Lessons In Soft Power

Social media and public diplomacy are spinning a web for worldly Asian states. In this digital age of me, myselfie and I, we all know...

Facebook Reveals Online Education App For Rwanda

Editor's note: Mobile World Congress is the world's largest mobile phone trade show looking at the current state of mobile and where it might...

[LISTEN] On Culinary Diplomacy

Culinary diplomacy utilizes food as a relationship-builder, but does it meet the standards of new public diplomacy?   Michael Ardaiolo discusses the different facets of culinary diplomacy...