Exploring the 'dark side' of digital diplomacy, this volume highlights some of the major problems facing democratic institutions in the West and provides concrete examples of best practice in reversing the tide of digital propaganda.
Corneliu Bjola is Associate Professor in Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford and Chair of the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group.
James Pamment is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Strategic Communication at Lund University, Sweden, and an external faculty member at the University of Southern California (USC) Center on Public Diplomacy.
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Introduction: the 'dark side' of digital diplomacy
Corneliu Bjola and James Pamment
Part I
Strategic communication
1 Propaganda as reflexive control: the digital dimension
Corneliu Bjola
2 Information influence in Western democracies: a model of systemic vulnerabilities
Howard Nothhaft, James Pamment, Henrik Agardh-Twetman and Alicia Fjällhed
3 A digital ménage à trois: strategic leaks, propaganda and journalism
Emma L. Briant and Alicia Wanless
4 The use of political communication by international organizations: the case of EU and NATO
Eva-Karin Olsson, Charlotte Wagnsson and Kajsa Hammargård
5 The unbearable thinness of strategic communication
Cristina Archetti
Part II
Countering violent extremism
6 The democratisation of hybrid warfare and practical approaches to defeat violent extremism in the Digital Age
Alicia Kearns
7 The aesthetics of violent extremist and counter-violent extremist communication
Ilan Manor and Rhys Crilley
8 Virtual violence: understanding the potential power of ISIS' violent videos to buttress strategic narratives and persuade foreign recruits
Sean Aday
9 The battle for the battle of the narratives: sidestepping the double fetish of digital and CVE
Akil N. Awan, Alister Miskimmon and Ben O'Loughlin
Conclusion: rethinking strategic communication in the Digital Age
James Pamment and Corneliu Bjola
Works cited
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