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Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week – Chinese tech giants share details of their prized algorithms with top regulator in unprecedented move (CNBC)Snapchat Introduces Its First Parental Controls (The New York Times)Facebook considering ending restrictions on Covid... Continue Reading →
When scholars and pundits discuss digital diplomacy, they tend to equate this term with social media activities. Indeed, the majority of digital diplomacy studies have focused on how and why social media is used by foreign ministries (MFAs), embassies, Ambassadors and International Organisations. Studies have explored the numerous ways in which states use sites such... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- Wikipedia Is Finally Asking Big Tech to Pay Up (Wired)How AI digital twins help weather the world’s supply chain nightmare (MIT Technology Review)The Chatbot Problem (The New Yorker)Israel, India agree to... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- Israel escalates surveillance of Palestinians with facial recognition program in West Bank (The Independent)When Finnish researchers took on the Twitter trolls (Nature)North American companies rush to add robots as demand surges... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- Why you should be more concerned about internet shutdowns (MIT Technology Review)Australia’s move to share defence technology with US fans concerns over weapons’ ultimate use (The Guardian)China has become a laboratory... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- Xi’s Gambit: China Plans for a World Without American Technology (The New York Times) Startup using Soviet-era technology to build satellite servicing vehicle (Space News) Chinese Technology Stocks Have Fallen Harder... Continue Reading →
Comment: This post about International Women’s Day was written from a man’s perspective. It is thus highly likely that the analysis in this post would benefit from the insight of women. I encourage women readers to comment on this post and offer their own analysis of the tweets analyzed below. This insight will be integrated... Continue Reading →
Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week- Facebook spent more on lobbying than any other Big Tech company in 2020 (CNBC)Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia (BBC News)UK must resist the itch to meddle with the... Continue Reading →
Between the 5th and 7th of December the Israeli Foreign Ministry hosted Israel's Second Digital Diplomacy Conference. Attended by diplomats and academics from more than thirty countries, the conference explored the practice of diplomacy in the age of algorithms. As such, conference panels dealt with the issues of online propaganda and disinformation campaigns, countering the... Continue Reading →
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