CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES MONITOR

July 12, 2009 - Present
As part of the Center's research project on the topic, this CPD Media Monitor tracks coverage of China's Confucius Institutes around the world.


Latest Media Monitor Reports
ARAB SPRING MEDIA MONITOR: ONE YEAR OF COVERAGE
MAR 13, 2012
By Rachel Chan
For more than a year, tumultuous changes have swept across the Middle East. Citizens have poured into the streets, governments have fallen and social media is now recognized as a powerful tool for the masses. Since the early days of the so-called “Arab Spring,” the USC Center on Public Diplomacy has been aggregating related public diplomacy news coverage. This CPD Media Monitor Report serves as a review and brief analysis of the hundreds of stories from and about Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Syria from December 2010 through January 2011.Outlined below are the contours of each popular uprising as conveyed by the media as well as an overview of various public diplomacy efforts which have accompanied them. These have ranged from efforts in the United States to provide technical support to bypass the Libyan government’s stranglehold of the Internet to engaging with Syrian protesters via Facebook. As changes occur in the region, public diplomacy must continue toward those publics attempting to constructively reshape their governments and countries. Support of these citizens and their shared values must be demonstrated not just through words, but through actions. While this Report wraps up the CPD Arab Spring Media Monitor, it does not conclude CPD’s continued PDiN coverage of the Arab Spring and public diplomacy related stories. Only time will tell how the uprisings, conflicts and new democracies will play out in the region, but nations around the world would do well not to ignore the publics in the Middle East, even as they struggle to define and achieve consensus on their futures.


Past Media Monitor Reports
GREEN WAVE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND THE IRANIAN ELECTION
JUL 6, 2009
By Naomi Leight
This Media Monitor Report highlights the impact of new media use by foreign publics to communicate with and advocate for one another in the wake of the Iranian election. This report provides a brief analysis of the media coverage of social network-driven public diplomacy from June 13 – June 30, 2009. The stories collected here help demonstrate how the Iranian opposition movement has engaged in public diplomacy outreach through new media.

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S MIDDLE EAST EXPEDITION
JUN 15, 2009
By Paul Rockower
Few stories have caught the scope of attention and imagination of both global public and press as President Barack Obama’s recent foray into the complicated landscape that is the Middle East. Coverage and commentary was ubiquitous in all corners of the globe in the run-up to the president’s visit to Riyadh and Cairo and his speech at Cairo University.

This Media Monitor Report examines the full scope of coverage of President Obama’s trip to the Middle East, his vaunted Cairo speech and the public diplomacy implementation and implications of the Middle East expedition by the new American president.

SECRETARY CLINTON IN ASIA
MAR 7, 2009
By Lorena M. Sanchez
This Media Monitor tracked local and international news coverage and media commentary about U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's first official overseas visit to Japan, Indonesia, South Korea and China.

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