Rhetorical Traditions of Public Diplomacy and the Internet

Rolfe, Mark

doi:10.1163/1871191x-12341266

Cited by 8 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 13 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…However, the 2007 global economic crisis, the fourth wave of worldwide democratization, terrorism and the rise of emerging powers have filled the international political arena with uncertainty. This new world order features the conflict between multilateralism and protectionism (Williams, 2019), and the rapid rise and spread of populism have led to frequent regional disputes (Afrasiabi and Kibaroglu, 2005; Rolfe, 2014). Furthermore, the emergence of network propaganda based on the propagation of fake news, fake science and disinformation via social media is complicating how nations manage international public opinion (Benkler et al , 2018).…”

Section: Digital Public Diplomacy and Uncertaintymentioning

confidence: 99%

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

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

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.

show abstract

Section: Digital Public Diplomacy and Uncertaintymentioning

confidence: 99%

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

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This approach was based around the idea that increased public information and engagement in issues of foreign affairs would encourage citizens to become stakeholders in maintaining stability in the international order: an agenda most famously exemplified by Woodrow Wilson following the end of the First World War (Cull, , pp. 19–20; Pamment, , p. 21–22; Rolfe, ). It would enable a mindshift, in other words, between being a subject with limited rights toward being a global citizen demanding accountability.…”

Section: Origins Of the Fields: Culture Nationalism And Internationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Media Influence, Ontological Transformation, and Social Change: Conceptual Overlaps BetweenDevelopment CommunicationandPublic Diplomacy

Pamment

2015

Commun Theor

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Development Communication and Public Diplomacy are twin products of U.S. political science and Cold War foreign policy. As contemporary diplomatic and development policies continue to converge, new ways of interpreting the relationship between the fields are necessary. This article analyses the 2 fields' emergence out of modernization policy and their reliance on a common conception of process: namely, that information propagated through media channels alters how foreign citizens know the world around them, and that this transformation can lead to positive social change. More recent paradigmatic shifts toward participatory communication models demonstrate that both fields have moved toward inclusive conceptualizations of influence and social change, but key differences suggest that they still have much to learn from each other.

show abstract

“…4 Morgenthau 1948;Kissinger 1957;Bull 1995. 5 Lovell 2007Goldstein 2008;Rolfe 2014. 6 Kerr 2010Kleiner 2006;Magliveras andHuliaras 2016.…”

Section: Introduction1unclassified

Diplomatic Peace

Kornprobst

2023

Hague J. Dipl.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Summary This article introduces the concept of diplomatic peace. It starts by developing a heuristic frame for identifying understandings of peace embraced by the actors we study. This frame encompasses three faces of peace — restraint, compromise and polylogue — and further differentiates different degrees of each of these faces (induced, co-operative and categorical restraint; profitable, principled and iterated compromise; extended, communal and deliberative polylogue). Then, this heuristic is applied to key United Nations General Assembly declarations and conventions that have passed unanimously since 1946. Studying how diplomats define peace yields remarkable results. Diplomats make far-reaching promises about the kind of peace they purport to pursue, strongly endorsing co-operative restraint, principled compromises and deliberative polylogues. The added value of this article is threefold: it systematically enquires into the nexus of diplomacy and peace, develops a multifaceted concept of peace, and reminds scholars and practitioners of how far-reaching already existing diplomatic promises of peace are.

show abstract

Rhetorical Traditions of Public Diplomacy and the Internet

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

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

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

Media Influence, Ontological Transformation, and Social Change: Conceptual Overlaps BetweenDevelopment CommunicationandPublic Diplomacy

Diplomatic Peace

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About