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Can Public Diplomacy Survive the Internet?

Bots, Echo Chambers, and Disinformation

Overview

Can Public Diplomacy Survive the Internet? features essays by workshop participants that focus on emergent and potentially transformative technology and communication patterns. The essays also highlight the potential challenges and opportunities these changes create for public diplomacy practitioners in particular and the U.S. government more broadly. We explore how public diplomacy practitioners can continue to productively engage with audiences around the world in the face of likely shifts in communication patterns, continue to effectively and efficiently help the United States to achieve its foreign policy priorities, and synchronize American interests with the interests of citizens and governments around the world.

Why is this important?

Debunks some of the ideas that we sort of take as axiomatic. Important report. -- JK

Creator

Edited by Shawn Powers and Markos Kounalakis

Publication Date

May 15, 2017