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A woman writing on a notepad and holding two microphones by Mihajlo Maricic via Canva.com

Public diplomacy scholars and practitioners should stop conceptualizing the media as mere arenas for soft power efforts.

Protest illustration by makyzz via freepik.com

A recent scholarly debate at ICA 2021 covered various media interpretations of social protests and implications for PD.