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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Diplomacy -- a brief overview |
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Why Twitter Diplomacy necessitates a Constructivist lens of IR |
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The curious case of the custom-made diplomatic practices |
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The evolution of modern-day Diplomacy |
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The defining diplomatic practice of modern day: Twitter Diplomacy |
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Chapter 2 Welcome to the Cyberspace -- an Analytical overview of contemporary debates |
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Why we should explore the `explore feeds' |
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The Political Weaponization of social media |
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Arms control treaty for social media |
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Regulating social media at Home |
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Does the Internet alter IR? |
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Chapter 3 The Arab Twittersphere is the heir of the neglected Arab Blogosphere |
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Where it all started: The neglected Arab blogosphere |
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The Arab Spring and the Emergence of the Arab Twittersphere |
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Chapter 4 A new classification framework for Twitter Diplomacy |
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The problem in the existing Twitter Diplomacy theoretical frameworks |
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Furthering a Twitter Diplomacy Definition |
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Why actors use Twitter Diplomacy |
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Who actors use Twitter Diplomacy for |
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Proposing a new classification system for Twitter Diplomacy |
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Chapter 5 Who do Arab state-actors Tweet for? -- The what and the how |
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The What -- the Research Question |
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Identifying trends in the Arab Twittersphere using secondary data analysis to guide selection of the accounts to be chosen as case-studies |
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Extracting the samples for the selected 4 case-studies |
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Developing the Parameters |
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Trends within the Arab Twittersphere |
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Most followed State-actors in the Arab Twittersphere |
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Most amplified state-actors in the Arab Twittersphere |
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Most conversed to state-actors in the Arab Twittersphere |
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Most addressed state-actors in the Arab Twittersphere |
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Who is Arab state-actors Tweeting for? |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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