What is reputational security for states? And what exactly do officials do to protect states’ reputations? How has social media and other communication technologies affected states and efforts to protect their reputations? This discussion is centered around Nickolas J. Cull’s book Reputational Security: Refocusing Public Diplomacy for a Dangerous World. [ dur: 58mins. ]
- Nicholas J. Cull is Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism at USC. He is the author of The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency: American public diplomacy 1989-2001, Public Diplomacy: Foundations for Global Engagement in the Digital Age, and his latest Reputational Security: Refocusing Public Diplomacy for a Dangerous World.
- R.S. (Rhonda) Zaharna is a full professor in the School of Communication at American University. She is the author of Battles to Bridges: U.S. Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy after 9/11 and Boundary Spanners of Humanity: Three Logics of Communication and Public Diplomacy
- Ilan Manor is digital diplomacy scholar and lecturer and Tel Aviv University and Ben Gurion University of Negev. He is the author of The Digitalization of Public Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy and the Politics of Uncertainty.
This program is produced by Doug Becker, Ankine Aghassian, Maria Armoudian and Sudd Dongre.
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