Russia's “WeChat Diplomacy” to China from the Perspective of New Media-Taking the official WeChat of the Russian Embassy in China as an Example Cover Image

Russia's “WeChat Diplomacy” to China from the Perspective of New Media-Taking the official WeChat of the Russian Embassy in China as an Example
Russia's “WeChat Diplomacy” to China from the Perspective of New Media-Taking the official WeChat of the Russian Embassy in China as an Example

Author(s): Juxi Zhang, Yilin HOU, Chongyu MA
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Communication studies, Sociology
Published by: Expert Projects Publishing
Keywords: WeChat diplomacy; new media public diplomacy; Russian Embassy in China; national image;

Summary/Abstract: With the rapid development of network technology, the rapid rise of network public diplomacy with social media has gradually become an important form for governments, which carry out public diplomacy to target countries. Under the background of the continuous and in-depth development of China and Russia comprehensive strategic partnership, the Russian Embassy in China has launched a series of new media public diplomacy activities through the WeChat public account. The theory of international communication and public diplomacy adopted to study the official WeChat public number of the Russian Embassy in China specifically by new media. This paper analyzes the topic distribution, dissemination content and dissemination effect of the public article, trying to observe the use of new media in China. The strategy of diplomacy is to conduct new media public diplomacy for other countries as a reference.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 66
  • Page Range: 233-248
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English