Essays about: "celebrity diplomats"

Found 2 essays containing the words celebrity diplomats.

  1. 1. Celebrity diplomats - strategic communication resources and mediators between the power, victims and the global public.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

    Author : Arbenita Mårtensson Govori; [2018]
    Keywords : Keyword: public diplomacy; celebrity diplomats; strategic communication; mediatization; media logic; transmedia engagement; critical discourse theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Public diplomacy activities and initiatives are adapting to new ways of strategic communication as the society and technology continues to evolve, the need of the organizations to spread information globally has made the public activities adapt to the new ways of communicating. The thesis is a critical discourse analysis of celebrity diplomats and how they are used to spread awareness about issues on global scale. READ MORE

  3. 2. Pop-culture icons as agents of change? : The roles and fucntions of celebrity activists in peace- and development related global issues

    University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Jonas Andersson; [2007]
    Keywords : celebrity activism; pop-culture icons; politics; advocacy; diplomacy; power;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine the possible theoretic and (f)actual role(s) of pop-culture icons in peace and evelopment-related global issues, using the qualitative research methods of text- and discourse analysis. Do pop-culture icons have a role to play at all in this field? If so, what is that role? What are these celebrity activists currently saying and doing on the international development scene and what are their analyses like? What are their current and historical functions? There is support in the academic literature suggesting that celebrity activists can possess vast power resources (scope of influence), (soft) power and (charismatic) authority, which in turn enables them to influence the attitudes and values of (especially young, receptive) people. READ MORE