Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Professor, International Relations, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, International Relations, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
3 Associate Professor, International Relations, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
4 Ph.D Student Professor, International Relations, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The world of diplomacy is witnessing the introduction of new tools for diplomatic engagement. In other words, the introduction of technology, especially mass media technologies such as Twitter, has introduced a new type of diplomatic process. Twitter has become a scene of attack, criticism, and commentary by activists and politicians on a variety of political and global issues that have interactive effects. This type of diplomacy was developed by the name of "Twiplomacy" that by the beginning of the year, 193 UN member states had used this type of diplomatic process. That is, the politicians of the countries had a Twitter account. To this end, this study examines the Twitter diplomacy of the Trump presidency. The key question is how and with what narrative does Trump present his diplomacy on Twitter? To answer the research questions and achieve the desired goals, digital content analysis and discourse analysis with two techniques of categories and evaluation were used. The statistical population of this study is the sum of the tweets of the US President (Trump) Twitter pages in 2017-2019.
Keywords
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