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- Eksell, Jörgen, et al.
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A Nordic perspective on supranational place branding
- 2019
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Ingår i: The Nordic wave in place branding: poetics, practices, politics. - 9781788974318 ; , s. 25-38
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter concerns the supranational place branding by the Nordic countries. Earlier studies highlighlight the obstacles in supranational place branding initatives and the challanges for involved stakeholders’ to agree as geographical size and complexity increases. The branding initiative of the Nordic countries, executed by the Nordic Council of Ministers, represents a rare example of a group of nations that have agreed on a strategy. The purpose of the chapter is to develop knowledge on place branding by exploring significant antecedents and factors of the creation of the Nordic supranational place branding strategy. The analysis highlights the importance of the two-hundred years of interregional peace and established long-term political collaboration in official organs. Furthermore, the anlysis points to the significance of the heightened international interest in ‘Nordic’ culture, lifestyle, cuisine and politics. In addition, the analysis conveys a picture of a brand work that allowed the distinctive features of each country to present itself in both the supranational place branding strategy and the nation branding of the respective countries. Hence, the negotiation process and the strategy work can be characterized as productive, inclusive and pragmatic. Lastly, the study points to the importance of using a holistic perspective on the political governance context in supranational place branding initiatives including historical, cultural and societal antecedents, internal and external understanding of the countries, as well as contemporary contextual factors.
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- Fjällhed, Alicia, et al.
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A Swedish Perspective on Foreign Election Interference
- 2021
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Ingår i: Defending Democracies : Combating Foreign Election Interference in a Digital Age - Combating Foreign Election Interference in a Digital Age. - : Oxford University Press. - 9780197556979 ; , s. 139-161
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter focuses on the Swedish approach for safeguarding electoral processes, using the experience from its 2018 elections as a case study. Sweden serves as a particularly interesting example due to the measures it took ahead of its 2018 election, especially its strategy of bottom-up initiatives that emphasize building societal resilience rather than a top-down government regulatory approach. By exploring the characteristics of Swedish society and the implications of Swedish efforts made prior to the 2018 general election, the chapter presents suggestions for how these insights might help other state and nonstate actors within the international community develop similar countering strategies for foreign election interference, while also addressing the dilemmas facing such an approach. The chapter concludes by discussing lessons learned and the challenges facing government authorities seeking to employ similar strategies in the future to counter foreign election interference in Sweden or abroad.
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- Fjällhed, Alicia, et al.
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Disinformation
- 2023
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Ingår i: A Research Agenda for Public Diplomacy. - 9781802207316 - 9781802207323 ; , s. 173-186
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Disinformation re-emerged in the 21st century as a public concern and professional challenge for actors seeking to navigate the new political and information landscape. This has led to a growing discussion among researchers on how disinformation relates to PD theory and practice. This chapter argues that disinformation comes with a set of opportunities for PD that open new perspectives to unresolved theoretical discussions, while simultaneously challenging PD researchers to develop a strategic research agenda that accommodates for the volatile nature of the empirical phenomena. Charting out a course for such strategic research agenda, the chapter argues that PD scholars should take a point of departure in the transdisciplinary frontier of disinformation research spanning from philosophy to psychology and sociology. By translating these insights into pre-existing PD frameworks and through continuous engagement with PD professionals, the chapter argues that we can build a strategic research agenda that delivers cutting-edge insights while being informed by PD actors’ experiences of the phenomenon’s contemporary and ever-changing empirical manifestations.
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- Fjällhed, Alicia, et al.
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New trends in digital diplomacy : The rise of TikTok and the geopolitics of algorithmic governance
- 2024
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Ingår i: The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy. - 9780192859198 - 9780191949715 ; , s. 288-296
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- TikTok’s viral short-video app has seen tremendous global growth, but its adoption in foreign policy and digital diplomacy is still low. Some diplomatic actors have refrained from developing a presence on TikTok due to geopolitical concerns emerging from TikTok’s Chinese ownership. Other diplomatic actors have established a presence on the platform due to its ability to make content with high engagements, reaching a young audience. The chapter observed three principal objectives when employing TikTok for digital diplomacy: 1) educating young audiences and raising awareness about current issues, including Covid-19 and the War in Ukraine; 2) countering misinformation and disinformation; 3) putting vulnerable communities at the forefront and empowering young people. The chapter also focuses on TikTok as a case where the international geopolitics of algorithmic governance has grown salient in the public debate, hoping to serve as a first step towards a theoretical conversation in digital diplomacy on the matter. This new interest concerns a deeper level of influence over public political debates, from an interest in actor’s participation in digital conversations to an understanding of how influence can be asserted through the algorithmic structures determining the possible scope of and promoted voices in such conversation.
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- Fjällhed, Alicia
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Strategic moral communication : A metatheoretical and methodological response to the normative perspective on strategic communication
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Strategic communication has long suffered from a reputation of immorality, often being conflated with derogatory terms such as sophistry and propaganda. Scholars in the social sciences have been trained to accept this moralizing idea of strategic communication as a normative point of departure, through influential theories such as Habermas’ discourse ethics and methodological approaches such as critical discourse analysis. This thesis challenges such assumptions. Shifting from a normative to an empirical stance, new perspectives on strategic dimensions in moral communication are presented. The thesis introduces ‘strategic moral communication’ as a new theory and ‘moral discourse analysis’ as a new methodology to explore such strategic dimensions in moral discourses. This approach is used to shine new light on the present moral zeitgeist, in an analysis of the discourse around fake news which the thesis argues reflect how our time defines moral and immoral public communication. The immorality of strategic communication may appear commonsensical, but this thesis argues that it is only common sense in our contemporary moral context. While many have assumed that strategic communication is immoral, this thesis rather finds that moral communication is strategic.
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- Johansson, Sofia, et al.
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Digital corporate communication and hostile hijacking of organizational crises
- 2023
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Ingår i: Handbook on Digital Corporate Communication. - 978 1 80220 196 3 - 978 1 80220 195 6 ; , s. 208-221
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social media and digital communication not only provide ways for organisations to engage stakeholders in new and more dialogic ways but have also opened a historically unprecedented Pandora’s box of disinformation techniques. Conventional crisis communication is well prepared to engage critical stakeholders, but its routines are ill-adapted to exploitative actors who employ deceptive or malicious tactics. This chapter draws attention to the ‘hostile hijacking’ of organisational crises by disinformation operators. Hostile hijacking occurs when ideologically motivated operators catalyze and amplify public outrage against organizations to make a point about the organisation’s country of origin or similar countries. Four potential tell-tale signs of a crises hijack are singled out: contribution to common disinformation narratives, logical incoherence and link by association, victimisation and mask-slipping, and conspiracy logic. The patterns are discussed and a roadmap for future directions is provided.
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- Nothhaft, Howard, et al.
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Planning and Designing
- 2021
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Ingår i: Handbook of Management Communication. - : De Gruyter. - 9781501508059 - 9781501516559 ; 16, s. 231-246
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter addresses planning and designing by asking a threefold question: 1) How does talk about plans and designs mobilize specific understandings of the organization, its environment, future and purpose? 2) How do plans and designs have agency in organizations? 3) How do management concepts affect planning and designing? The chapter draws on various illustrative examples – from Babylonian metaphysics to the U.S. Constitution, from Hobbes’s Leviathan to Prussian military doctrine – to suggest that ‘talk’ about planning and designing has more fundamental implications than previously theorized. Prosperous civilization, the chapter argues, requires plannability of the future and purpose to human action. After a brief etymological exploration and preliminary definition, the chapter explores this idea against the CCO-framework’s backdrop and key assumptions: that communication is constitutive of organizations.
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