Foreign Correspondence and Digital Public Diplomacy

Zhang, Shixin Ivy

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-54552-9_12

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“…This can be found when America failed to manage the information that came out to the Middle Eastern media which resulted in the failure of public diplomacy in the Middle East at that time. Therefore, the relationship between the press and public diplomats must be managed in as much detail as possible to manage these foreign resources as a way of shaping international politics (Zhang, 2021). Meanwhile, the information that will be published is information that will usually be published on information channels owned by the Museum such as Social Media and Websites.…”

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“…This museum itself has a function besides being able to preserve cultural heritage in the form of memory of the Asian-African Conference, this museum has also succeeded in carrying out its duties as technical implementation unit of the ministry of foreign affairs. Zhang (2021) public diplomacy is a communication with foreign publics to influence the way of thinking and attitudes of the people and influence the foreign policies of other countries (Zhang, 2021). Even though the museum is not located outside Indonesia, its influence on the foreign public is quite strong because the scope of visitors and the target of the museum itself are not only local visitors but also foreign visitors, foreign press, students, and foreign government officials.…”

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The Memory of Asian-African Conference as a Public Diplomacy

Pratama¹,

Rachman²,

Akim³

2023

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This paper aims to explain the process of public diplomacy carried out by the Museum of the Asian-African Conference. This r paper focuses on the role of museums as actors of public diplomacy that can help countries fulfill their national interests. This paper also explains what activities have been carried out by the museum to fulfill its role as an actor in Indonesian public diplomacy. The Museum of the Asian-African Conference itself is a historical museum that holds important memories about the Asian-African Conference. This study used qualitative paper methods. The data sources used in this study consist of two types, namely primary data sources such as data resulting from observations and interviews at the research location, while the secondary data itself is data obtained through literature study from articles related to the Museum of the Asian-African Conference such as books, journals, and electronic news. The data analysis process from this study includes five stages, namely data collection, data sorting, re-collection, data interpretation, and the conclusion. The results of this paper is about the museum’s successes in carrying out Indonesian public diplomacy through events that organized by the museum. These activities also create opportunities for the Indonesian government to use them as a key for foreign policy making process.

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Section: Public Diplomacy Of Museum Of Asian-african Conferencementioning

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The Memory of Asian-African Conference as a Public Diplomacy

Pratama¹,

Rachman²,

Akim³

2023

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“…Although questions have been raised as to whether FCs are still necessary in the 21 st century (Baloch and Andresen, 2020; Niknejad et al, 2014), especially in dangerous areas for traditional and new media news networks alike, FCs are still considered important actors, even more than in the past due to fake news (Brüggemann et al, 2016; Willnat and Martin, 2020; Zelizer, 2019). FC collect, produce, and provide news and information worldwide as direct witnesses and commentators of world events and essential analysts of states' foreign policies (Risso, 2017; Zhang, 2021) – well demonstrated in the recent Russian-Ukrainian conflict in which FCs from around the world have played a central role in the war’s coverage (Knobel, 2022; Stelter, 2022).…”

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Just Listen! The importance of listening in foreign correspondents–governments relationships

Bejerano

Magen

2023

Journalism

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This study examines the role of listening methods within public diplomacy (PD)/foreign correspondents' relations. Listening theory plays a double role in the study: a) It serves as the theoretical basis for analyzing whether listening and, more specifically, feedback are applied by Israeli public diplomacy (PD) bodies; b) It serves as the core methodology of this study. We demonstrate the value of listening within the context of these professional relationships by applying a methodological simulation of listening. By systematically listening to both parties, one can uncover and trace gaps between the parties' perceptions and better understand their relationship. Based on fifty semi-structured, in-depth interviews with PD seniors and foreign correspondents, the study compares and contrasts the parties' perceptions regarding tactical and strategic aspects of Israeli PD organizations’ actions. The findings indicate a substantial lack of critical listening methods in Israel's PD mechanism. By applying systematic listening methods, gaps and weak links in the parties’ relationship surfaced. To address these gaps, we recommend implementing recurring feedback platforms. These might assist the parties in developing more authentic and open dialogue, despite disagreements and disputes.

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“…9). Zhao (2012), another high-level Chinese official, argued that the core idea of China's public diplomacy is the development of wai xuan (external propaganda) to create highly centralized and politicized communication. Given the national celebration of the CPC's public awakening during the war of national independence and Beijing's actions to promote the modernization of Chinese society (Liu, 2013), the term propaganda in Chinese excludes all negative connotations related to disinformation, manipulation and psychological operation.…”

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An intermestic approach to China's public diplomacy: a case study of Beijing's COVID-19 communication in the early stages

Huang

Wang

2022

JCOM

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PurposeThe aim of this study was to examine the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak and the international communication management of Chinese diplomats as a case for extending the definition of intermestic public diplomacy. The goal was to reveal how Beijing subtly used both domestic and foreign social media to organize a network for communication about COVID-19 and purposefully soften the highly centralized and hierarchical political propaganda of the Communist Party of China (CPC).Design/methodology/approachBased on the literature on digital public diplomacy, the authors applied the existing concept of intermestic to Chinese politics in order to demonstrate the digitalization of public diplomacy, along with its forms and strategies under an authoritarian regime. A hybrid methodology combining quantitative network analysis and qualitative discourse analysis permits examination of China's intermestic online communication network dynamics, shedding light on how such an intermestic practice promoted Chinese values and power to international publics in the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis.FindingsThe authors’ findings extend the implications of intermestic public diplomacy from a democratic context to an authoritarian one. By analyzing the content of public diplomacy and para-diplomatic social media accounts in China and abroad at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the authors outlined China's early crisis management, explaining its intermestic public diplomacy transmission modes and strategies. Moreover, the authors identified changes in the narrative strategies of Chinese diplomats and journalists during this process.Social implicationsThe findings of this study underline that Beijing established a narrative-making virtual communication structure for disseminating favorable Chinese strategic narratives and voices through differentiated communication on domestic and foreign social media platforms. Such intermestic communication strategies were particularly evident and even further weaponized by Beijing in its large-scale Wolf Warrior diplomacy in the spring of 2020. Thus, the study’s findings help readers understand how China digitalized its public diplomacy, its digital communication patterns and strategies.Originality/valueOn the one hand, geopolitical uncertainty and the popularity of social media have contributed to the evolution of the intermestic model of public diplomacy. This model allows actors to coordinate homogenous and differentiated communication practices to deploy their influence. On the other hand, the authors did not examine how intermestic audiences perceive and receive public diplomacy practices. In future studies, scholars should measure the agenda-setting capacity of diplomatic actors by examining the effects of such intermestic communication efforts.

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Foreign Correspondence and Digital Public Diplomacy

Cited by 3 publications

References 52 publications

The Memory of Asian-African Conference as a Public Diplomacy

The Memory of Asian-African Conference as a Public Diplomacy

Just Listen! The importance of listening in foreign correspondents–governments relationships

An intermestic approach to China's public diplomacy: a case study of Beijing's COVID-19 communication in the early stages

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