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- Pamment, James, 1977-
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The Limits of the New Public Diplomacy : Strategic communication and evaluation at the U.S. State Department, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, British Council, Swedish Foreign Ministry and Swedish Institute
- 2011
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The new public diplomacy is a major paradigm shift in international political communication. Globalisation and a new media landscape challenge traditional foreign ministry ‘gatekeeper’ structures, and foreign ministries can no longer lay claim to being sole or dominant actors in communicating foreign policy. This demands new ways of communicating foreign policy to a range of nongovernmental international actors, and new ways of evaluating the influence of these communicative efforts. But where do the lines between old and new public diplomacies actually meet? How much current PD policy and practice conforms to older styles of communication, and how much can truly be considered new? What are the practical constraints upon the adoption of an entirely ‘new’ PD? This PhD thesis investigates the methods and strategies used by 5 foreign ministries and cultural institutes in 3 countries as they attempt to adapt their PD practices to the demands of the new public diplomacy environment. The question is not simply of how government actors have phased out their archaic old PD practices, but of how the continual need for short-term influence – for discernable impact, outcomes, value-for-money – complicates the paradigm shift. The case studies are based around an analysis of US, British, and Swedish strategies. Each chapter covers national policy, evaluation methods, and examples of individual campaigns. Material consists of 25 interviews with PD practitioners, detailed policy studies, reconstructions of 5 PD campaigns, and analysis of communication models and evaluation methodologies.
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- Krzyzanowski, Michal, 1977-, et al.
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Uncivility, racism, and populism : Discourses and interactive practices in anti- & post-democratic communication
- 2021
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In: Nordicom Review. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1403-1108 .- 2001-5119. ; 42:1, s. 3-15
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This Special Issue of Nordicom Review discusses interactive practices of articulating and communicating uncivility in the context of recent wider anti- and post-democratic change. We consider that change as a cross-national phenomenon that has been taking place in the Nordic countries, Europe, and indeed elsewhere since the late 1990s and early 2000s, and one that has significantly accelerated with the global rise of the “anxious politics” (Albertson & Gadarian, 2015) of right-wing populism and the far-right (Moffitt, 2016; Mudde, 2019) in recent decades. While our collection joins an ongoing and growing body of research on both un- and incivility – which we describe and to some extent disentangle conceptually in detail below – it carries a few pronounced aims which characterise its contribution to the wider research on mediated and political communication in the context of a crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of nativism and far-right populism.
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- Melián, Virginia, 1970-
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Bridging the blocked river : A study on internet and mobile phone practices within an environmental movement between 2005 and 2008 in Argentina and Uruguay
- 2012
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In recent years mobile phones and the internet have played an increasingly significant role, assisting in the organization of dissent worldwide. Only a few studies have dealt with the interplay between social movements and these digital media in Latin America so far. The aim of this PhD thesis is to investigate the empowering potential of internet and mobile phones with regard to mobilization as well as the organization and the dissemination of collective action in an environmental movement opposing the construction of pulp mills and the forest exploitation model in Argentina and Uruguay from 2005 to 2008, a period that coincides with the beginning of the popularization of these digital technologies in these countries. The study relies on interviews with key activists, website analysis of homepages and interviews with key journalists. Drawing on theories on civic engagement and ICTs, social movements media, social movements and collective action as well as public sphere, this thesis reveals that internet and mobile phones supported mobilization and the organization and communication of collective action. Even though the internet and mobile phones functioned as a means facilitating the interplay between key activists and journalists, the dominating event-centered journalistic logic was not challenged. Personalized forms of action and new ways of engaging in action from the private towards the public were beginning to be negotiated among these activists.
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- Christensen, Christian
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WAVE-RIDING AND HASHTAG-JUMPING : Twitter, minority ‘third parties’ and the 2012 US elections
- 2013
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In: Information, Communication and Society. - 1369-118X .- 1468-4462. ; 16:5, s. 646-666
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- With the description of the 2012 election as the ‘most tweeted’ political event in US history in mind, considering the relative media invisibility of the so-called ‘third-party’ presidential candidates in the US election process, and utilizing the understanding of retweeting as conversational practice, the purpose of this paper is to examine the use of Twitter by the four main ‘third-party’ US presidential candidates in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election in order to better understand (1) the volume of tweets produced by the candidates; (2) the level of interaction by followers in the form of retweeting candidate/party tweets; and, (3), the subject and content of the tweets most retweeted by followers of the respective parties. The ultimate goal of the paper is to generate a broader picture of how Twitter was utilized by minority party candidates, as well as identifying the issues which led followers (and their respective followers) to engage in the ‘conversational’ act of retweeting.
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- Christensen, Miyase, et al.
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The Arab Spring As Meta-Event and Communicative Spaces
- 2013
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In: Television and New Media. - : SAGE Publications. - 1527-4764 .- 1552-8316. ; 14:4, s. 351-364
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, immediately labeled the Arab Spring, are best described as processes rather than outcomes. Despite being a common area of media focus due to decades-long geopolitics, the Arab Spring, as a mediatized meta-event, has led to the reemergence of the region as a discursive territory. The communicative spaces that opened up during and in the aftermath of the uprisings allowed for a multiplicity of topics to reenter public discourse across local, national, and transnational scales. In the process, seasoned debates such as religious sectarianism and democratic institutionalization gained magnitude. More specific debates such as Turkey's role as a model/antimodel added new discursive aspects to the multitopic ensemble. The purpose of this article is to reflect on the communicative and scalar dimensions in the mediation of the Arab Spring by way of taking the debates on Turkey as a case in point.
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- Christensen, Christian
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A decade of WikiLeaks: So what?
- 2014
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In: International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics. - : Intellect. - 1740-8296 .- 2040-0918. ; 10:3, s. 273-284
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article, I consider how WikiLeaks has gone through a series of metamorphoses: from a small, relatively unknown website devoted to giving whistleblowers space to release their material to one of the best-known activist organizations in the world. In addition, it has gone from being an organization that began by operating as an alternative to the mainstream media, to one that worked with the mainstream, and then to a group that devoted a fair degree of energy to attacking the media. I argue that during this tumultuous period of change, WikiLeaks needs to be understood in relation to its impact upon a number of fundamental relationships central to the study of media and journalism. I use WikiLeaks to consider the importance of studying sites and organizations as cultural artefacts, and to examine the idea that 'everything which has been collected on it, becomes attached to it-like shells on a rock by the seashore forming a whole incrustation'. Academic research itself is, of course, part of this incrustation.
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- Christensen, Christian
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Sweden, COVID-19, and invisible immigrants
- 2022
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In: Creative Resilience and COVID-19. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 9781032100791 - 9781032100814 - 9781003213536 ; , s. 92-102
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this chapter, international media coverage of Sweden’s infamous “light touch” COVID-19 strategy is connected to another subject that dominated coverage of Sweden: immigrants and immigration. For years, immigrants were framed—by both right-wing and supposedly “progressive” outlets—as the central issue facing Swedish society, and as a problem and threat. Stockholm has been the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, and it is parts of the city with the highest percentage of residents with immigrant backgrounds that have been hit hardest. In other words, the very people vilified by the media when arriving as refugees are the ones now bearing the brunt of COVID-19. Coverage of this element of the impact of COVID-19 on Sweden has been striking by its absence. Ignoring this part of Sweden’s COVID-19 story erases the place of immigrants in Swedish society. This erasure, in turn, reinforces vague, stereotypical notions of Swedish social, economic, political, and ethnic homogeneity that makes real analysis impossible.
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- Christensen, Christian
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The links that bind : WikiLeaks, Twitter, and the Julian Assange case
- 2016
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In: Popular Communication. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 14:4, s. 224-237
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the decade since the founding of WikiLeaks, no non-leak-related issue has dominated coverage of the organization more than the August 2010 allegations made by two women in Stockholm against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This case has been addressed on the WikiLeaks Twitter feed on a consistent basis over the past 6 years. The tweets from WikiLeaks to millions of followers constitute a form of popular communication where a broad-albeit somewhat prefigured-audience is targeted using an open social media platform. With this audience in mind, I analyze the use of Twitter by WikiLeaks to address the 2010 rape allegations against Assange ( and the subsequent follow-on events after those allegations), with a particular focus on two issues: (a) the framing by WikiLeaks of the allegations, Sweden, rape, and feminism; and (b) how the sources (links) used in those tweets to back up claims should be seen as part of the general framing process.
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- Christensen, Christian
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The Weaponization of Doubt Re-thinking Erdogan in an Era of Trumpism
- 2019
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In: Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. - : Brill. - 1873-9857 .- 1873-9865. ; 12:2, s. 133-148
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article, I offer a parallel reading of Erdogan and Trump in order to highlight the extent to which these two leaders have engaged-actively and effectively-in discrediting not only journalistic content (called 'fake news' or 'treason'), but also the very institutions of journalism, institutions that are key agents in international and national power geometries. The parallel reading is particularly useful because, as I argue, Trump and Erdogan can be understood as different nodes on the democratic plane, with clearly overlapping rhetorical and political strategies to meddle with power hierarchies, to reposition the role and status of their respective countries.
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