A Transnational Public Sphere for a Digital Generation?
The figure of the networked young citizen, politically engaged through a transnational public sphere, is compelling, but other models may come to be more significant.
Video Games and the Simulation of International Conflict
As with other media, games are open to multiple interpretations and can be politically significant in different ways depending on which interpretations they can sustain.
New Media and Latin American Violent Movements
Social media have enabled Latin American violent movements to share their stories, whether this be the nobility of their causes or the extravagance of their lifestyles.
Imagining Integration: The Role of Social Media in the Development of Regional Identity and Empowerment
Language barriers across the Caribbean region make building a common identity difficult and CARICOM is not meeting its mandate of creating a community. Could social media offer some solutions?
Can Social Media Sustain a Revolution?
Has a focus on social media in the revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East distracted us from an engaged understanding of the underlying causes of these uprisings?
Review – Networks of Outrage and Hope
From the Arab Spring to the Occupy movements, Castells’ book provides insight into the sudden rise of mass uprisings across the world, their political force, and momentum.
Public Diplomacy @ State
Social media is opening up direct two-way communications between foreign ministries and the general public on an industrial scale. The US Department of State is leading the trend.
Considering YouTube Diplomacy
The differences in Western and Arab reactions to the Innocence of Muslims video clip cannot be reconciled. A cultural détente is our best hope. YouTube diplomacy is now an issue that all nations must address.
Western Armed Forces and the Mass Media in Historical Perspective
The appearance of social media is less a major change than simply one more development in the long history of propaganda. In focussing on technological changes, governments and their armed forces miss the wider political and social issues.
