As Hocking and Melissen It conveys Digital diplomacy reflects the ways in novelty — that the practice of diplomacy is which international actors — typically states somehow implicated, constrained, or oth- — employ digital platforms to achieve policy erwise enabled in qualitatively new ways outcomes. Yet, this sweeping definition also through the communication medium.
This shares some conceptual territory with other is not an entirely new proposition. Studies terms that describe similar practices and have illustrated the impact of communication strategy.
The most obvious is public diplo- technologies on the practice of diplomacy, macy. Digital diplomacy scholars have noted noting celebratory and cautionary discourse that there are indeed differences between the surrounding the rise of the telegraph, the concept of digital and public diplomacy, yet television, and the internet Nickles As Bjola and munications deal with the domain of public Kornprobst and others have argued, diplo- diplomacy Owen They must work with communi- advocacy, and international broadcasting cation strategies on display in the work efforts.
Considerable overlap between digital of negotiations. In these cases, digital diplo- diplomacy and digital diplomacy — where macy connotes the kinds of communication the sphere of diplomacy practice is enlarged efforts used to shape audience opinions and to necessitate engagement with connected beliefs, how diplomatic representatives serve publics, that amplify the agency of diplomats as gatekeepers for information, and how mis- to effect change in a time where transparency sions can effectively boost advocacy through is enhanced through the sharing of news strategic connections to other actors, like and information Lichtenstein ; Sotiriu NGOs and advocacy networks Kampf et al.
At the same time, the connectivity afforded Digital diplomacy, in this view, embod- by digital diplomacy suggests the possibility ies the campaign of nation-states that seek of a more collaborative and inclusive foreign to cultivate and shape communities online policy that is responsive to the networks around particular images and views related of global policy stakeholders. Noted digital to the promoting country.
Public diplomacy, public relations, Yet the difference between many digital branding, international studies, and media diplomacy descriptions and public diplo- studies are all represented in the nascent macy is mostly rhetorical.
Public diplomacy literature. The scholarship has tracked how invites comparisons to propaganda and more the concept has moved beyond discussion of stilted efforts at message management.
Digital social media platforms as a necessity — where diplomacy, in contrast, draws on a shared diplomatic presence is the primary indica- cultural imaginary about social media and tor of influence — to follow up questions of technology — yet arguably both deal with impact and meaning for policy-makers and platforms for communication and their role diplomats.
So programs like the Twiplomacy in enabling the connectivity of diplomats to project, connected with the public rela- interlocutors and foreign publics. While diplo- related platforms. In this earlier view, states macy itself is not information warfare, efforts should conduct digital diplomacy in order to to leverage or contain the effects of such dig- establish presence. Nevertheless, diplomacy studies on public engagement, yet the US Department of State, which was rec- what does it signify for the more enduring ognized as an early adopter for social media aspects of diplomatic traditions?
How does engagement, has developed other programs digital diplomacy challenge the conventional that embody some of the potential that dig- understanding of diplomacy? Looking across ital diplomacy affords Hanson In , the depart- fundamental challenge to diplomacy itself. The early tra- ings to US embassies around the world.
The ditions in diplomatic studies focused on the US-based examples are arguably not exhaus- tradecraft of negotiations and the qualities tive, but demonstrate how the integration of of the ambassador. The rise of automated bots and located in communication. These are broad categories of digital diplomacy to international relations that are not entirely mutually exclusive, nor Holmes Hocking and Melissen note do they preclude the advent of something like the progression of diplomacy from a statist digital diplomacy.
Integrative diplomacy the will of policy-makers across different captures the manner in which diplomacy contexts and circumstances, through adap- must deal with the complex networks of tation, skill, and analytical acumen Sending policy stakeholders, the proliferation of other et al. Digital diplomacy could international actors wielding agency, both easily be used to describe those tools through within interagency contexts and outside of which the enduring practices of diplomacy governments, and the significance of publics, are implemented.
Diplomacy is therefore required to either the context of diplomacy, or, the mediate and manage difference, to deal with way this context changes the foreign policy the fundamental condition of estrangement requirements that diplomats must ultimately that describes the international system. The support or advance. Whether we describe the sweeping impact of technology on social state of contemporary diplomacy as digital or relations and by extension, the mediatization not, it is hard to isolate the practice of diplo- of politics suggests a tectonic shift in the macy from the consequences of information relationship of diplomacy to the broader and communication technologies, and the sweep of international politics that it must downstream effects of digital platforms.
Perhaps one of the largest theoretical For example, some argue that the role of challenges to the concept of diplomacy that diplomats has grown from managing bilateral might be mitigated by the advantages of and multilateral relations to playing signifi- digital diplomacy is understanding how cant roles in the governance of global public diplomacy manages its fundamental respon- goods Sending et al.
Diplomats, in sibility to mediate estrangement within other words, are uniquely poised to play a complex media ecology. International both intermediary and managerial roles in relations is increasingly intermediated by the promotion of rules and norms related diffuse relations among and between publics, to transnational issues of human rights, with cultural and social boundaries effaced environmental change, and democratic gov- through the sharing of stories, information, ernance.
Diplomacy is not just multilateral and data in ways that diminish the distinc- As Geoffrey Wiseman has argued, diplomacy tive gate-keeping role that diplomats have is defined by polylateral configurations of historically played Miskimmon et al.
Crisis communications, and relate to foreign publics in ways that and the ability to connect embassies with circumvent traditional diplomatic channels. Rather, the sphere of digital platforms for diplomacy.
Consular of relevant and interested actors that have services now utilize social media to stay con- influence over the outcomes of diplomacy nected and provide citizen services Hocking has grown.
This argument underscores the and Melissen This manifests in a number of persuasion and negotiation, but on the avail- ways. First, embassies and MFAs around ability of open and transparent information the world have invested in online and social and data. The growth of social media outputs and Dinnie The ability of diplomats to effec- established, and the limits of contemporary tively engage their counterparts and other messaging strategies through such platforms.
Put differ- when security considerations limit the ability ently, embassies and ministries deploy digital of political officers to get outside the capital platforms for a variety of purposes — to assist or even the walls of the embassy. Digital networks — to gather insight and to establish diplomacy has the potential to redefine and credibility.
MFAs and embassies increasingly ests. Clarifying the evolving notion of agency connect with each other through social media for diplomats is important, in part, because platforms, forging linkages on substantive diplomats have played a historical role as issues, regional affiliation, and membership gatekeepers of information. Diplomats are in international agreements. This connection one of the primary sources for advice and also provides opportunities for informal counsel to policy-makers threatened by communication, another channel for dia- the proliferation of information and norm logue that may strengthen the capacity of entrepreneurs empowered by information formal diplomatic institutions to sustain their and communication technology.
Put simply, more kinds of actors, from individuals The further MFAs and embassies become to collectives acting as advocacy networks or enmeshed within digital platforms, the more extremist groups, exert a well-documented normalized the concept of digital diplomacy form of agency that yields real effects within becomes as part of the routines of diplomacy.
This kind of scholarship is increasingly The capacity to effect change enabled by necessary to understand digital diplomacy, technology, through mediated politics and in order to ascertain how diplomats and networked organizing, presents real chal- the organizations they serve are actively lenges to the exclusive status of diplomats. In the absence Diplomats serve in a distinct capac- of established metrics for the impact of digital ity as boundary spanners and network diplomacy, a default position for diplomacy hubs — connecting various constituencies has been to demonstrate its use Bjola b.
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