Digital Diplomacy 2.0? A Cross-national Comparison of Public Engagement in Facebook and Twitter

The Hague Journal of Diplomacy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 331-362

  Kampf, Ronit ^a   Manor, Ilan ^a   Segev, Elad ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

dialogic communication; digital diplomacy; public diplomacy; public engagement; social networking sites; web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946552307     PISSN: 18711901     EISSN: 1871191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1871191X-12341318     Document Type: Article

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