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APR 11, 2012
New Website Shows Korea’s Dark Side
Huffington Post (UK)
As the Korean wave sweeps over Asia and the rest of the world, there is a growing audience for all things Korean. There are already dozens of K-pop sites, allkpop has 75 million views a month, but koreaBANG has a harder news edge.
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APR 11, 2012
Analysis of Foreign Language Usage in Twitter: Tunisia
Media Badger
This issue also adds a layer of complexity for foreign governments with digital diplomacy and public diplomacy programs that use social media. They will need to develop an understanding of the meanings and context of hashtags as they evolve and to understand how words may be played with and what the use of former colonial languages may be signalling, if anything.
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APR 9, 2012
UN chief to ‘hang out’ at Google social network
The Straits Times
Voices of the next generation will have the chance to participate in an exclusive global conversation with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon via a Google+ Hangout from the United Nations headquarters...Youths from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States will be able to ask questions on issues that matter to them.
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APR 6, 2012
Tweeting democracy across the Arab world
Al Arabiya News
Social media has enabled citizen journalists with the ability to create and distribute content across the globe. It allowed millions of strangers to unite behind the cause of greater freedom and economic opportunity and organize mass demonstrations...
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APR 5, 2012
The Future of Public Diplomacy, a USC conference
Mountainrunner
The Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars at USC has their annual conference tomorrow, April 6, 2012. The conference will provide a discussion on new technologies and emerging actors in the amorphous “thing” sometimes called public diplomacy.
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APR 4, 2012
Study Says US Leads World in E-Diplomacy
ExcutiveGov
The State Department is the world’s largest user of web information and communication technologies for diplomatic objectives, according to a recent study from the Australian-based Lowy Institute for International Policy.
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APR 4, 2012
Why Governments Engage in Digital Diplomacy Through Social Media
Media Badger
The US State Department and the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) are perhaps the most engaged Western governments when it comes to social media. Following them is Sweden and Australia....Does it make sense in this new area called Digital Diplomacy? Very much so and public diplomacy is nothing new. It’s been going on for hundreds of years.
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APR 2, 2012
U.S. Ambassador To China discusses open communications at China’s search giant Baidu
Tech President
Social media is an integral part of US diplomacy in China, said the US Ambassador to China Gary Locke on Friday during a townhall meeting with the employees of China's most popular search engine Baidu. He said that he was generally learning that Chinese citizens are "wanting more accountability, transparency, ethics in government."
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APR 2, 2012
The ethics of storytelling: Documenting change in Honduran youth
The Huffington Post
In light of the "Kony 2012" saga -- the story of one valiant white hero who was ready to take down Central Africa's Lord's Resistance Army... until a mental breakdown of the naked variety brought about his tragic downfall -- more NGOs are contemplating the ethics of utilizing social and digital media to promote their causes.
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APR 2, 2012
State Department’s e-diplomacy efforts outpace other nations’
Federal Computer Week
“The slow pace of adaptation to e-diplomacy by many foreign ministries suggests there is a degree of uncertainty over what e-diplomacy is all about, what it can do and how pervasive its influence is going to be."
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