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Sunday, December 25, 2016

#DigitalDiplomacy “U.S. Mission Japan’s Love Dance….

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U.S. Mission Japan’s rendition of the popular KoiDance (Love Dance)

Published on Dec 20, 2016

Ambassador Kennedy and U.S. Mission Japan staff in Tokyo, Sapporo, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka, and Naha got into the holiday spirit and showed off their dance moves. Check out our rendition of the “Koi Dance” (Love Dance) from one of the most popular TV shows in Japan this season.

Music:
“Koi” by Gen Hoshino / SPEEDSTAR RECORDS : A Division of Victor Entertainment

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On the use of narratives and images in Digital Diplomacy

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Despite recent debates on fake news and the virility of rumors and gossip, it is important to remember that social media users are intelligent, curious and eager to learn about events shaping their world. More specifically, digital diplomacy followers are often interested in insight and analysis of global events. For this reason, narratives may play an important role in digital diplomacy. Narratives offer a clear explanation of complex events. Moreover, narratives demonstrate how seemingly disconnected events relate to one another. Finally, narratives offer a frame through which the world makes sense.

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Friday, February 12, 2016

More than 100 dead bodies recovered in Cizre, an ongoing human tragedy made by you know who…

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HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş has said, “We don’t know how many people have been killed in Cizre over 20 days. There is no exact figure because there isn’t any healthy process there”.
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HDP Co-Chair Yüksekdağ has noted; what is naked today is not the body of a woman whom they have slaughtered but the very understanding of the government of war itself.
In other news: 
An Istanbul court has ruled to block access to the website of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, accused by the Turkish government of “leading a terrorist organization.”

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