New communication tools in the digital era have enabled governments to engage audiences, home and abroad, about key policy decisions and much more. Given that these audiences no longer need traditional information gatekeepers, today’s public diplomacy officers must be flexible, reactive and swift, especially on social media. This is why realtime computational methods to collect, manage and analyze social media data in real-time is key to the future of public diplomacy.
Join the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy for a public lecture with Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy Jean-Christophe Boucher, who will share his work in computational thinking through the lens of a 2017 social media case analyzing the U.S.'s reputation.
This conversation will be moderated by Jay Wang, Director of the Center on Public Diplomacy.
Light refreshments will be served.
About Jean-Christophe Boucher
Jean-Christophe Boucher is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. He completed a BA in History from Ottawa University, a master's degree in Philosophy from the Université de Montréal, and received his PhD in Political Science at Université Laval in December 2011. His main research interests and publications have focused on peace and security studies, Canadian foreign and defense policies, quantitative analysis and methodology. He is currently the 2020 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy.