New Media and Public Diplomacy

This book examines the role of new media and digital technologies in public diplomacy and political communication.

Autorentext

Parama Sinha Palit is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. She was a Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) Fellow with the Sandia National Laboratories (US Department of Energy) in 2021. She was also a consultant with CRDF Global (US) in 2022. A specialist on foreign policy and public diplomacy, she is the author of Analyzing China's Soft Power Strategy and Comparative Indian Initiatives (2017). While in India, she was a researcher at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) as well as the United Services Institution (USI).

Inhalt

1.Introduction 2. Evolving Contours of New Media: Public Diplomacy and Political Communication in the Global Context 3. New Media: Global Trends in Political Communication and Diplomacy 4. The US Leadership: New Media-driven Diplomacy and Political Communication Since 9/11 5. China: New Media, Public Diplomacy, and Political Communication 6. India's Digital Public Diplomacy and Political Communication: The Evolution (Pre-2014) 7. India's Digital Public Diplomacy and Political Communication: The Evolution (2014 Onward) 8. Disinformation, Extreme Content, and Public Response: India, the US, and China 9. Concluding Thoughts: Digital Diplomacy in the Post-COVID-19 New Normal Appendix 1: India's Adoption of New Media Platforms for Public Diplomacy