Public Diplomacy or Public Glocalization? Rethinking Public Diplomacy in the Post-Truth Era

Saliu, Hasan

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“…Public diplomacy is "a communication process states, nonstate actors, and organizations employ to influence the policies of a foreign government by influencing its citizens" (Gilboa, 2016, p. 2). I define public diplomacy as a communication of state and non-state actors of a country with the public of foreign countries to inform, engage, influence them and to realize the state interests (Saliu, 2020a;2020b;2022a, 2022b. This communication can be done directly by visiting a country or mediated through the media.…”

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“…(a) information management, which means that the greatest possible volume of information on foreign publics is shown through the media, preferably on daily basis, (b) strategic communication -consisting of occasional campaigns throughout the year; and (c) cultural diplomacy -involving various exchanges to achieve the establishment of long-term relationships with foreign audiences (Gilboa 2008;Leonard, 2002;Nye 2004Nye , 2008Nye , 2019Saliu, 2022a). The first category, information management refers to the government's control of information through the mass media (Gilboa, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…So, not only the actors of communication have changed, but also the competitors. Nowadays, state and non-state actors of different countries communicate even without the need for exchange programs thanks to the advancement of communication technologies, which enables contact between people from different countries in real time (Saliu, 2022a). People can get information online, interact by commenting on media posts through social networks, read their friends' posts via text message, watch videos, watch information that others have shared, like or comment on it, talk with friends, share memories and photos about holidays, pets, and children.…”

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“…Thanks to the widespread use of technologies and the Internet, "the world is smaller and more connected than ever before" (Ki, Pasadeos & Ertem-Eray, 2021, p. 1). Most citizens of a country nowadays learn more about foreign policy or foreign countries and values via the media rather than through public diplomacy activities (Golan, Manor & Arceneaux, 2019;Saliu, 2022a).…”

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Narratives of Public Diplomacy in the post-Truth Era: The decline of Soft Power

Saliu

2023

Communication & Society

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This article aims to build a better understanding of today’s communicative changes of public diplomacy in the post-truth era. Today, our communication environment has changed compared to decades ago: about 5 billion people communicate online and compete among themselves through their social media narratives, which are the main platform for the distribution of fake news in the post-truth era. The question posed here is: what are the winning narratives in the complex global environment of public diplomacy? Through problematizing review, this article analyses the sources of soft power which were described at the end of the Cold War, and which remain effective even in today’s communication environment. Also, the purpose and influence of public diplomacy has been problematized, analysing how to influence foreign government by influencing its citizens. The paper concludes that the values of soft power described three decades ago only have limited and specific effects on non-European publics, but not on European ones. Additionally, it is impossible to influence European governments by influencing their publics through public diplomacy because the context has changed and the values of soft power in these countries no longer have the former distinctive gap between them.

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Saliu

2023

Communication & Society

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“…But today the circumstances are new. The Internet, and especially social media networks, have caused fake news to capture the attention of researchers due to the increased potential for wide dissemination through social media (Saliu, 2022). "Fake news is intentionally and verifiably false and could mislead readers" (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017, p. 213).…”

Section: The Transformation Of Indicator 'Journalism Professionalism'mentioning

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Revisiting Hallin and Mancini's Media Model: Albania and Kosovo

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ABRASHI

2023

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Sociotechnical governance of misinformation: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Sanfilippo,

Zhu,

Yang

2024

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Misinformation is a complex and urgent sociotechnical problem that requires meaningful governance, in addition to technical efforts aimed at detection or classification and intervention or literacy efforts aimed at promoting awareness and identification. This review draws on interdisciplinary literature—spanning information science, computer science, management, law, political science, public policy, journalism, communications, psychology, and sociology—to deliver an adaptable, descriptive governance model synthesized from past scholarship on the governance of misinformation. Crossing disciplines and contexts of study and cases, we characterize: the complexity and impact of misinformation as a governance challenge, what has been managed and governed relative to misinformation, the institutional structure of different governance parameters, and empirically identified sources of success and failure in different governance models. Our approach to support this review is based on systematic, structured literature review methods to synthesize and compare insights drawn from conceptual, qualitative, and quantitative empirical works published in or translated into English from 1991 to the present. This review contributes a model for misinformation governance research, an agenda for future research, and recommendations for contextually‐responsive and holistic governance.

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Public Diplomacy or Public Glocalization? Rethinking Public Diplomacy in the Post-Truth Era

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

Narratives of Public Diplomacy in the post-Truth Era: The decline of Soft Power

Narratives of Public Diplomacy in the post-Truth Era: The decline of Soft Power

Revisiting Hallin and Mancini's Media Model: Albania and Kosovo

Sociotechnical governance of misinformation: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

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