What Other Agencies Are Doing To Understand Foreign Audiences
The US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is building a system to understand human metaphorical speech. Why metaphors? "Metaphors have been known since Aristotle as poetic or rhetorical...
View ArticleFinger On The Pulse?
One of the primary tasks of the public diplomacy officer in the field is to constantly have a finger on the pulse of public opinion and leadership sentiment. "What are key people thinking?" "What are...
View ArticleSix Degrees of Separation: Now 4.7 Degrees of Proximity
Social media is a lot like the weather: everyone talks about it, but very few are doing anything about it. The news that social science researchers have determined that the distance between friends...
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Do Embassies Use Social Media in America?
You bet they do! But perhaps not as many foreign missions as you might expect are into social media, and most are not as extensively engaged as you would think. That is the way I interpret the...
View ArticleQuotable: Steve Tatham on using social science in response to Russian propaganda
“Whatever might be said about Russian foreign and military policy in Ukraine and the former soviet states, they cannot be accused of not taking Information Warfare seriously.” Retired Royal Navy...
View ArticleQuotable: Carissa Gonzalez on an “evaluation revolution” for Public Diplomacy
“Analytics. Metrics. Evaluation. Impact. . . . . Public Diplomacy (PD) professionals in the field . . . have been historically reluctant to discuss them,” wrote State Department Public Diplomacy...
View ArticleClassic Quotable: George Gallup on “the battle for the minds of men” (1963)
During his career, George Gallup (1901-1984), the pioneer of opinion surveys and founder of the Gallup Poll, frequently commented on issues relating to Public Diplomacy. This 1963 essay was prepared...
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