| Diplomacy: Digital Diplomacy
Lichtenstein, Jesse
New York Times Magazine, July 18, 2010, pp24-30
"The youngest member of the State Department's policy planning staff Jared Cohen and the first senior adviser for innovation to the secretary of state Alec Ross were taking their tweeting very seriously. Here, Lichtenstein discusses Ross and Cohen's style in bringing diplomacy in State Department into the digital age, by using widely available technologies to reach out to citizens, companies and other nonstate actors. Their way of engaging into this kind of innovation perhaps best described as a cross between social-networking culture and foreign policy aracana. At Google and YouTube, they stressed the political power of viral videos and the potential for mobile phones to become widespread public tools for education, banking and election monitoring. Among other things, Lichtenstein details the advantages of utilizing the innovative way of keeping the foreign policy."
Jesse Lichtenstein is a journalist, poet, screenwriter, and teacher.
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C13/03-10. Posted August 25, 2010
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