Digital Diplomacy and International Organisations: Autonomy, Legitimacy and Contestation

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Series Page
Title Page
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Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Going digital: Choices and challenges for international organisations
	Introduction
	Note
	References
Part I International organisations’ “digital universe”
	Chapter 2 IO public communication going digital? Understanding social media adoption and use in times of politicization
		Descriptive analysis
		Theories and hypothesis
		Explanatory analysis
		Conclusion
		Appendix
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3 Digital diplomacy or political communication? Exploring social media in the EU institutions from a critical discourse perspective
		Introduction
		The European Union, external communication, and online/social media
		Twitter “behaviour,” Twitter “discourse,” and EU spokespeople: analysis
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 4 Is there a place for a crowdsourcing in multilateral diplomacy? Searching for a new museum definition: ICOM vs the world of museum professionals
		Introduction
		“Radically democratic”: Transparency at the cost of accountability
		Pursuing “common good”: balancing between the Global North and Global South
		Conclusion
		References
Part II International organisations and autonomy
	Chapter 5 The United Nations in the digital age: Harnessing the power of new digital information and communication technologies
		Introduction
		The United Nations in the digital age
		Studying the integration and impacts of new digital ICTs in UN processes
		How the UN went digital: the case of the UN Secretariat’s Department of Global Communications
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 6 Clock, Cloud, and Contestation: The digital journey of the Commonwealth Secretariat
		Introduction
		Adopting ICT – the story of CLOCK work
		What next?
		Getting ready
		Adapting to digital – the story of CLOUD work
		Thriving in the CLOUD world
		Contestations
		Notes
		References
Part III International organisation and legitimacy
	Chapter 7 Tweeting to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war? The UN, Twitter, and communicative action
		Introduction
		International Organisations, Legitimacy, and Social Media
		Theorising the UN Twittersphere: tweeting as communicative action
		Reconstructing and assessing the UN Twittersphere
		Results and discussion
		Conclusion and further research
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8 Reconceptualising and measuring online prestige in IOs: Towards a theory of prestige mobility
		Introduction
		Literature review
		2015 analysis
		New analysis in 2020
		2015 results
		2020 results
		Discussion and conclusions
		Appendix 1: sample of 67 MFAs
		Appendix 2: sample of 33 UN Missions
		References
	Chapter 9 The (un)making of international organisations’ digital reputation: The European Union, the “refugee crisis,” and social media
		Introduction
		On organisations and their reputation
		Assessing the EU reputation during the refugee crisis: methodological issues
		The impact of the refugee crisis on EU reputation: findings8
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
Part IV International organisations and contestation
	Chapter 10 Diplomat or Troll? The case against digital diplomacy
		Introduction
		The development of traditional diplomatic relations
		The development of digitally mediated communications
		Methods
		Results
		Discussion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 11 Coping with digital disinformation in multilateral contexts: The case of the UN Global Compact for Migration
		Introduction
		The digital disinformation disorder
		The legitimacy blind spot
		Case study: the UN Global Compact for Migration
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12 Rethinking international organisations in the digital age
		IOs’ digital turn
		From digital diplomacy to digital international organisations?
		Note
		References
Index