Social Media and International Relations

Zusammenfassung The 2016 US election highlighted the potential for foreign governments to employ social media for strategic advantages. This Element explores how social media can amplify and shift the balance of popular opinion on complex foreign policy issues and the different impacts in an open media, democratic environment and a more controlled regime. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Social media as a social and political force; 3. Social media as a weapon of war; 4. The democratic disadvantage and autocratic advantage; 5. Assessing the impact of social media manipulation; 6. Digital sovereignty.

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• Authors: Sarah Kreps, Sarah (Cornell University Kreps, Kreps Sarah Kreps
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781108826815
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82681-5
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in International Relations; Elements in International Rela
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations