2021
DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksab005
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The Synthetic Situation in Diplomacy: Scopic Media and the Digital Mediation of Estrangement

Abstract: What happens to the diplomatic encounter when it is digitally mediated? This article investigates how multilateral diplomats, who understand themselves as bringing people and polities together, cope with and resist the move to online settings, replacing handshakes with touchless greetings in videoconferences. Our starting point is the Covid-19 pandemic, but the article theorizes the effects of digital technological mediation already under way years before. Translating Knorr Cetina's notion of “synthetic situat… Show more

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“…In such moments, it seems that the commissioners’ and ambassadors’ need to build trust comes first, and the creation of ideal working conditions for interpretation comes second. Similar feelings of being downgraded as ‘part of the furniture’ were reported by the EU interpreters during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic (Eggeling and Adler-Nissen, 2021: 9). Yet such signals are contradictory because at the same time, the EU institutionally insists that translation – the full language regime – is ‘essential’.…”
Section: Boundary Work Of Blended Diplomacy: ‘Real’ Diplomacy and ‘Es...supporting
confidence: 71%
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“…In such moments, it seems that the commissioners’ and ambassadors’ need to build trust comes first, and the creation of ideal working conditions for interpretation comes second. Similar feelings of being downgraded as ‘part of the furniture’ were reported by the EU interpreters during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic (Eggeling and Adler-Nissen, 2021: 9). Yet such signals are contradictory because at the same time, the EU institutionally insists that translation – the full language regime – is ‘essential’.…”
Section: Boundary Work Of Blended Diplomacy: ‘Real’ Diplomacy and ‘Es...supporting
confidence: 71%
“…To share information, diplomats continue to meet face-to-face, but they also send emails, write text messages, or feed and follow social media accounts (Bjola and Manor, 2022). Emerging literature attempts to trace how digital artefacts such as tweets are produced and shape diplomatic routines (Adler-Nissen et al, 2021) and reconceptualise online meetings in diplomacy as ‘synthetic situations’ (Eggeling and Adler-Nissen, 2021) connecting physical and virtual sites.…”
Section: Digital Technologies In Everyday Diplomatic Practicementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Below, we show the value of combining big and thick (data) analysis to expand our understanding of world politics. We illustrate with examples from our research project “DIPLOFACE: Diplomatic Face-Work between Confidential Negotiations and Public Display” (see Adler-Nissen and Drieschova, 2019; Eggeling and Adler-Nissen, 2021). Funded by the European Research Council (ERC), the DIPLOFACE project brings together scholars specialised in natural language processing, social network analysis, machine learning, ethnographic fieldwork and discourse analysis.…”
Section: When Diplomats Tweetmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… 2. For exceptions (see Bjola and Holmes, 2015; Eggeling and Adler-Nissen, 2021; Hedling and Bremberg, 2021). …”
mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This perspective, although relevant to our increased understanding of social media in diplomacy, focuses on the power of emotion to cultivate identities. Growing attention to the digitalisation of diplomacy has also highlighted the emotional dynamics of online interactions both in relation to high stake signalling (Duncombe, 2019b) and in the transformation of face-to-face interactions through screen-based technologies (Eggeling and Adler-Nissen, 2021). The latter inquiry into professional interactions assisted by digital technologies draws on Knorr Cetina's rethinking of Goffman's interactionism in the 'synthetic situation' (2009).…”
Section: Emotions In Diplomacymentioning
confidence: 99%