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Jared Schroeder - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • turkey s twitter public diplomacy towards a new Cult of Personality
    Public Relations Review, 2019
    Co-Authors: Nur Uysal, Jared Schroeder
    Abstract:

    Abstract This study examined how Turkey uses social media as a tool for public diplomacy and how the state’s soft-power efforts have recently changed on the global stage. The researchers constructed a dataset of 2769 Twitter posts by the Turkish government’s most influential public diplomacy accounts. The analyses revealed that the focus of Turkey’s Twitter public diplomacy has become concentrated on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and is thematically focused on the political values embodied by the Turkish president. The findings suggest that public diplomacy remains to be the diplomacy of the government, not of the public, and social media is used as just another tool for propaganda, not as a means of engagement with foreign publics. Further, the findings indicate the emergence of a “new” Cult of Personality in public diplomacy and point out the instrumental role of social media in changing the dynamics of leader-follower relationship. The study contributes to public relations theory and practice by advancing the burgeoning public diplomacy scholarship at the intersection of social media and relational approaches.

  • Turkey’s Twitter public diplomacy: Towards a “new” Cult of Personality
    Public Relations Review, 2019
    Co-Authors: Nur Uysal, Jared Schroeder
    Abstract:

    Abstract This study examined how Turkey uses social media as a tool for public diplomacy and how the state’s soft-power efforts have recently changed on the global stage. The researchers constructed a dataset of 2769 Twitter posts by the Turkish government’s most influential public diplomacy accounts. The analyses revealed that the focus of Turkey’s Twitter public diplomacy has become concentrated on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and is thematically focused on the political values embodied by the Turkish president. The findings suggest that public diplomacy remains to be the diplomacy of the government, not of the public, and social media is used as just another tool for propaganda, not as a means of engagement with foreign publics. Further, the findings indicate the emergence of a “new” Cult of Personality in public diplomacy and point out the instrumental role of social media in changing the dynamics of leader-follower relationship. The study contributes to public relations theory and practice by advancing the burgeoning public diplomacy scholarship at the intersection of social media and relational approaches.

Nur Uysal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • turkey s twitter public diplomacy towards a new Cult of Personality
    Public Relations Review, 2019
    Co-Authors: Nur Uysal, Jared Schroeder
    Abstract:

    Abstract This study examined how Turkey uses social media as a tool for public diplomacy and how the state’s soft-power efforts have recently changed on the global stage. The researchers constructed a dataset of 2769 Twitter posts by the Turkish government’s most influential public diplomacy accounts. The analyses revealed that the focus of Turkey’s Twitter public diplomacy has become concentrated on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and is thematically focused on the political values embodied by the Turkish president. The findings suggest that public diplomacy remains to be the diplomacy of the government, not of the public, and social media is used as just another tool for propaganda, not as a means of engagement with foreign publics. Further, the findings indicate the emergence of a “new” Cult of Personality in public diplomacy and point out the instrumental role of social media in changing the dynamics of leader-follower relationship. The study contributes to public relations theory and practice by advancing the burgeoning public diplomacy scholarship at the intersection of social media and relational approaches.

  • Turkey’s Twitter public diplomacy: Towards a “new” Cult of Personality
    Public Relations Review, 2019
    Co-Authors: Nur Uysal, Jared Schroeder
    Abstract:

    Abstract This study examined how Turkey uses social media as a tool for public diplomacy and how the state’s soft-power efforts have recently changed on the global stage. The researchers constructed a dataset of 2769 Twitter posts by the Turkish government’s most influential public diplomacy accounts. The analyses revealed that the focus of Turkey’s Twitter public diplomacy has become concentrated on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and is thematically focused on the political values embodied by the Turkish president. The findings suggest that public diplomacy remains to be the diplomacy of the government, not of the public, and social media is used as just another tool for propaganda, not as a means of engagement with foreign publics. Further, the findings indicate the emergence of a “new” Cult of Personality in public diplomacy and point out the instrumental role of social media in changing the dynamics of leader-follower relationship. The study contributes to public relations theory and practice by advancing the burgeoning public diplomacy scholarship at the intersection of social media and relational approaches.

Andrew R. Heinze - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Schizophrenia Americana: Aliens, Alienists, and the "Personality Shift" of Twentieth-Century Culture
    American Quarterly, 2003
    Co-Authors: Andrew R. Heinze
    Abstract:

    Challenging the validity of the influential "Susman thesis" about the rise of a consumption-based Cult of Personality in early twentieth-century America, this essay argues that the new emphasis on Personality should be understood within the context of immigration, ethnicity and race rather than consumption. The "Personality shift" derived from critical changes in American psychological thought that coincided with equally critical attempts to interpret personal and national identity in an era of mass immigration and ethnic relocation. The change in popular understandings of Personality centered on the dilemma of dissociation and integration in regard to both the individual and the nation.

Amatzia Baram - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Saddam’s Word: Political Discourse in Iraq. By ofra Bengio. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 266p. $49.95.
    American Political Science Review, 2001
    Co-Authors: Amatzia Baram
    Abstract:

    ofra Bengio's book is a scholarly and methodical endeavor to analyze the way in which Ba`thi Iraq (1968-present) has been using (or misusing) the Arabic language, symbolism, history, and myths in order to legitimize its rule and policies. Bengio demonstrates how language has been twisted and manipu- lated in an attempt to terrorize political enemies, paralyze and enchant the vast majority of the Iraqis, induce them to perform or tolerate atrocities, and risk their lives in battle for leader and country. Sometimes, the regime is entrapped in its own rhetoric. The book shows how discourse, art, and symbols have been used to construct a Cult of Personality for Saddam Husayn, unmatched in the contemporary Middle East.

David A Siegel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Cults of Personality preference falsification and the dictator s dilemma
    Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2020
    Co-Authors: Charles Crabtree, Holger L Kern, David A Siegel
    Abstract:

    We offer a novel rational explanation for Cults of Personality. Participation in a Cult of Personality is psychologically costly whenever it involves preference falsification, with the costs varyin...

  • Cults of Personality, preference falsification, and the dictator's dilemma
    2018
    Co-Authors: Charles Crabtree, Holger L Kern, David A Siegel
    Abstract:

    We provide a novel rational explanation for why Cults of Personality exist: they solve the dictator's adverse selection problem in assigning subordinates to roles within the regime. Participation in a Cult of Personality is psychologically costly whenever it involves preference falsification, with the costs varying across individuals. Importantly, low psychological costs of preference falsification are correlated with traits the dictator values, such as unscrupulousness and ruthlessness, which we collectively term disposition-based competence. Under a wide variety of circumstances, this correlation makes participation in Cults of Personality informative from the dictator's point of view, allowing him to hire loyal and competent subordinates for the most important regime positions. In contrast to earlier formal work, our model implies that dictators can use Cults of Personality to avoid the loyalty-competence trade-off when promoting subordinates.