{"id":9954,"date":"2023-11-08T07:41:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=9954"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:13:24","slug":"after-twitter-x-and-the-future-of-digital-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/event\/after-twitter-x-and-the-future-of-digital-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"After Twitter: X and the Future of Digital Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"After Twitter with Dr Eric Van Rythoven\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NEEFV-k4eD4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"after-twitter-x-and-the-future-of-digital-diplomacy\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">After Twitter: X and the Future of Digital Diplomacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"in-recent-years-twitter-has-become-the-preeminent-platform-for-digital-diplomacy-with-state-officials-relying-on-its-services-daily-to-reach-audiences-communicate-messages-and-frame-international-ev\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">In recent years Twitter has become the preeminent platform for digital diplomacy with state officials relying on its services daily to reach audiences, communicate messages, and frame international events. Yet its acquisition by Elon Musk and controversial transformation into \u2018X\u2019 raises serious questions over its continued viability as a tool of statecraft. This talk examines the impact and significance of Musk\u2019s transformation of Twitter for digital diplomacy. While the future of Twitter\/X remains uncertain, I argue that the changes made thus far signal serious challenges to diplomatic actors, and especially the positive public image or \u2018face\u2019 liberal democracies hope to project when using digital platforms.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/After-Twitter-event-November-23-20231031.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/After-Twitter-event-November-23-240x371.jpg\" alt=\"After Twitter: X and the Future of Digital Diplomacy With Dr. Eric Van Rythoven, Visiting Professor\" class=\"wp-image-9956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/After-Twitter-event-November-23-240x371.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/After-Twitter-event-November-23-160x247.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/After-Twitter-event-November-23-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/After-Twitter-event-November-23-400x618.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/After-Twitter-event-November-23-994x1536.jpg 994w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/After-Twitter-event-November-23-360x556.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/After-Twitter-event-November-23.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussion focuses on three challenges in particular: the problem of verification and impersonation, the growth of hate speech on the platform, and Twitter\/X\u2019s increasingly reactionary politics. Taken together these developments underscore the precariousness of the privately owned infrastructure of digital diplomacy which many scholars and public officials take for granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[4],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-9954","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-events-and-speakers"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2023-11-23T14:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2023-11-23T16:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"NI","cu_event_meeting_room":"1020","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/9954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/9954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9969,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/9954\/revisions\/9969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=9954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}