by Charles Cameron | Apr 16, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — still convinced we don’t known nearly enough about religion — with a quick look at the Kansas shooting ] . The victims: The victims of the Overland Park Jewish Community Center and Village Shalom shootings weren’t even...
by Matthew Wallin | Apr 4, 2014 | Monitor
With news breaking this week about USAID’s creation of a “Cuban Twitter,” it’s a perfect time to discuss the alignment of public diplomacy goals and the tools used to accomplish them. In this case, the tools, goals, concept, and the executor of the plan were all...
by Matthew Wallin | Nov 27, 2013 | Monitor
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the Digital Diplomacy Open House held at the Canadian Embassy by the Digital Diplomacy Coalition. The event featured small booths and presentations by various countries with embassies in DC. During their presentations, I...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 29, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — how a half-baked, re-raked tale from 2007, now showing on my local Facebook, gets things all wrong ] . Let’s set the record straight. It seems that Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times did the amplification in this case. He...
by Nico Prucha | Sep 4, 2013 | Monitor
In our earlier post, together with Ali Fisher we detailed and assessed 66 accounts listed by Shumukh al-Islam jihadi Forum member Ahmad ‘Abdallah as ‘important jihadist’ members on twitter. We looked primarily at the users individually, using the data of these 66...
